Family boundaries and celebrations: Why exclusion from a dinner plan led to a difficult decision regarding a birthday event

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Melissa: You’ve made the biggest mistake of your life, you trash. Do you think you can just walk away from us?

Thomas: Did you really think you could humiliate our family without consequences? You’re done in Boston.

Eleanor’s message was the most revealing, stripped of all her usual passive-aggressive pretense: I always knew you were common.continue reading …