you really shouldn’t lose courtesy with your family that you know you would have with your friends, being a blood relation shouldn’t normalise disrespect
I agree with the whole ‘communication is key’ thing but there’s just some people that only take your concerns seriously when you deprive them of something like giving the silent treatment, it’s annoying tbh it’s like having to parent them
once I’m free from the chauvinist capitalist shackles of western education I can spend the following months reclaiming my feminine roots and engaging in an abhorrent amount of self care