When Care Becomes Control

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We are taught to see care as an unquestionable good.

If someone is worried about us, involved in our lives, or seeking help on our behalf, we are encouraged to assume good intentions and be grateful for the attention.

But there are situations where care quietly crosses a line.

Not into obvious harm.

Not into cruelty or neglect.

But into control.

This is especially true in families, where concern can slide into surveillance, and where disagreement is easily reframed as instability rather than difference.