What happens when you stop trying to make people understand what they already had enough information to understand?

We are taught that relationships are voluntary until the relationship is family. Then history becomes obligation, blood becomes continued access, and “that's just how they are” becomes an expectation that everyone else should keep adjusting around behavior that one person has never been required to change.

In this episode of All Things DVN, I’m talking about no contact, family estrangement, the hidden mechanics of “keeping the peace,” and the exhausting need to prove that what happened to you was serious enough to justify leaving. I also examine something I've had to confront in my own life: the difference between walking away and continuing to prosecute the case from a distance.

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