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At the bottom of her post she says she did just what you suggest. She started interacting with other people. I don't think the whole "nuclear family causes misery" thing made much sense. She evidently didn't either since her solution to being lonely was to go do things with other people rather than trying to change her family social unit.

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Honestly, that author's note at the bottom reads a lot like "this whole post is wrong, but I already wrote it."

If joining shared-interest groups solves isolation induced misery, then the nuclear family isn't an irreparable problem. It's at worst one factor in broader atomization, and should be viewed as such.

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