Most families assume the hardest conversations are the financial ones. While those are difficult enough on their own, the disharmony that pulls multi-generational families apart often starts somewhere else.

The problem begins earlier than most people think: over values left unsaid.

Too often, family members internalize their values—or those of the generations that came before. Those values are clear in their minds, but when they go unnamed, they stay buried and unmined.

And what goes unarticulated is inevitably what does the most damage.

What can multi-generational families do to capture their values? This article has the answer—and it’s far simpler than you would think.

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