SecretSlaveClass
Because some family are really duped into believing they are doing it in your best interests?
If you really really believed you could save someone's life by not talking to them for six months.
For many there are baser and mixed motivations of course. But in its purest form it is perhaps forgivable.
Yes I suppose you are right. I think I'm just one of those people that can even cut off family in a heart beat if they are interfering with my life and freedom, particularly when they set conditional terms for a relationship. Perhaps my willingness to bolt at the first smell of bullshit could also be a weakness, I don't know. Maybe thats why I have so few friends and only retain the ones with whom we share a mutual respect for each other without conditions.