The person keeping everyone connected deserves news delivered directly, not work gathering it from others.

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WHAT THIS MEANS

Every family and every group has someone who holds the threads: who is unwell, who moved, who needs a call. That role looks effortless from outside because the information seems to reach them, when in truth they are usually chasing it, asking around, and piecing it together from fragments. The connecting is work, and it is done most often by someone nobody thanks for it.

Think of who that person is for you and tell them your own news before they have to ask. Ask occasionally how they are, since they are used to being the one who asks.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who does the work of keeping your family in touch?

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