Family group chats were supposed to keep everyone close. Instead, they have become a place where old wounds reopen on a loop, where a single message can command an audience, and where silence is read as accusation. This book is for anyone who has felt their stomach drop at a notification from the family thread — whether you are a parent desperate to understand why a child has gone quiet, an adult child who left the chat to save yourself, or someone in the middle, unsure what you owe anyone at all. The Family Group Chat: Modern Boundaries takes no sides. It names what a group chat actually does to family relationships — the audience, the expectation of instant reply, the circulation of photos no one asked to share — and it gives you a practical, unhurried framework for deciding what stays, what changes, and what you leave. No lectures about forgiveness. No pressure to reconcile. Just clear language for what you are feeling and concrete tools for what you can do next, whatever you decide. Part of The Estrangement Library.
About the author
Rupert Callaway Sedgemoor writes for The Estrangement Library.
