How might Buddhism help with difficult family relationships
<p>Leaving aside ‘the perfect family’, you will always find difficulties within any family group. Parents, children, or siblings all come with their potential issues. There might be specific individuals who manage to press your buttons and cause you deep distress or maybe it is the overall culture of your particular family that brings you suffering.</p>
<p>The problem with family is that societal expectations mean that you feel you should be able to get on with all of them. You should be able to tolerate them, forgive them, welcome them, and generally give them more than you might a stranger or someone to whom you are not close, say a work colleague. But are these expectations realistic, are they actually valid?</p>
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