not necessarily something i am aligned with, but everybody has a different situation. certainly some of my family are neither blood, nor wealthy... nor do we align politically. but they raised me in large part, and i was raised with their children, and so... they are family. they remember who i was, and have (some) context for what i'm becoming (to the extent that i'm able to share those things with them, without it devolving into political argument).

i also have friends that i think of as family. but i wonder would they take care of me if i were paralyzed, terminal, or incapacitated in some way. it's a heuristic that can be upsetting to spend much time applying to the relationships in one's life.

if your therapist isn't providing you homework, then you need to figure out what homework you're going to do. weekly/bi-weekly sessions to complain & gripe at somebody for $150/hr is a way to use money and that process may be palliative, but it's not gonna cure the underlying issues unless you're really digging in and affirming that you're there to grow & improve yourself.

and like physical therapy, sometimes you can overstrain yourself in psychological therapy... so we must be gently caring for ourselves.