Dr Ray O’Neill returns to Life Unfiltered for a conversation about the families we’re born into as well as the ones we go out and build for ourselves and the phrase “Blood is thicker than water, but you can still drown in it”.
We talk through Armistead Maupin’s idea of the “logical family,” the network of chosen kin who offer the unconditional support a family of origin sometimes can’t; the difference between love and duty,and why the commandment was to honour your parents, not to love them or obey them; and why stepping away from a family that harms you can be an act of self-preservation rather than betrayal.

You can find more about Dr Ray O’Neill at www.machna.ie.

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