08/01/2024
You know how much family you lose when you stop being what they expected you to be?
NONE!
Because family, real family, sees and accepts your differences; appreciates and celebrates them, even.
Now relatives? That's a different story altogether. Plenty of people you're related to genetically might cease to associate with you. But that's ok because they never saw, accepted or appreciated YOU; It was your compliant conformity they tolerated, the image of you they created in their mind that they held dear. It was never the WHOLE of you.
It's important to learn the difference if you want inner peace.
Let them people go.