This whole article about family estrangement is written from the perspective that 'family' is inherently a mandatory relationship.
The innovation that those of us who -are- estranged from our families have had to develop is that -no- relationship is mandatory - you can, in fact, structure all your relationships around specific consent to be in them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240830110929/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-so-many-people-are-going-no-contact-with-their-parents
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