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How to ward off arguments and tensions

2020-04-29T16:53:31.226Z


TESTIMONIALS - Forced and lasting cohabitation can generate conflicts. Some have put in place schemes to defuse them.


At the beginning of April, somewhere in the Landes, Rose (*), her husband, her younger brother and her sister-in-law, reunited by confinement on the family property, were having an aperitif when her brother took offense at the number of offspring - five - from an old comrade: " It's too creepy, it will destroy the planet!" "Rose did not raise her glass to announce: " I'm waiting for my fourth! "

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A fortnight later, the 30-year-old still hides the news from her own children. Especially since they would soon have learned it from their uncle. That she can't bear anymore. Before, the discrepancy between their lifestyles already prevented the two thirties from being close: Rose, her husband and their three children form a “large, noisy”, Catholic and rather conservative family. His brother and his wife are atheists, more discreet and connect to the Yuka app to "buy responsibly" at the supermarket.

Containment has widened this gap. A glass lying around, a lost butt, a child drawing on

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Source: lefigaro

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