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“Breaking up literally saved my life”: when cutting ties with your family becomes a necessity

2024-04-05T04:21:18.028Z

Highlights: In the era of individualism, in 2024, we still often expect the family that they support us and love us unconditionally. The family remains in the collective imagination this “safe haven, especially when the world around (Covid, wars, etc.) is collapsing,” analyzes psychotraumatologist Annie Ferrand. “Maslow’s pyramid, which lists the five basic needs of beings…” “Breaking up literally saved my life”: when cutting ties with your family becomes a necessity.


In an era that has established family ties as an absolute safe haven, cutting yourself off from your roots is still unthinkable, even a taboo. Between guilt and rebirth, testimonies of those who have taken this step.


Want to follow your path without judgment, to explore your passions, to discover your potential, to embrace your uniqueness, in two words, to be yourself: in the era of individualism, in 2024, we still often expect the family that they support us and love us unconditionally. When it disappoints or hurts, this personal, nagging quest for happiness should therefore facilitate breakups. But the subject remains as if prevented. Because if in the 19th and again at the beginning of the 20th century, it was mainly around the transmission of heritage that the family was united, today, its striking force rests on an image from Epinal: a nuclear home, heterosexual, a father and a mother, a space-time where bonds can continue happily. The family remains in the collective imagination this “safe haven, especially when the world around (Covid, wars, etc.) is collapsing,” analyzes psychotraumatologist Annie Ferrand.

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