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"Choosing bonds of identity over familial obligations" has judgemental connotations.
The thing about "bonds of identity" is that those people respect your right to exist and your personal agency. The family that deserves to be cut off does not.
If you've had it explained to you multiple times why the decisions you make are harming the people you claim to love, and you don't change your behavior, don't be surprised when that person you say you care about tells you to piss up a rope.
And for some of us we've built a culture around it because family has historically failed us as a community