#Dysfunctional Families
Quotes about dysfunctional-families
Dysfunctional families are a complex and often challenging aspect of human relationships, representing a dynamic where family members struggle to maintain healthy interactions and support. This tag delves into the intricate web of emotions, behaviors, and patterns that can arise in such environments, often characterized by conflict, neglect, or miscommunication. People are drawn to quotes about dysfunctional families because they offer a sense of understanding and validation. These quotes can resonate deeply, providing comfort and insight to those who have experienced similar situations. They serve as a reminder that they are not alone in their struggles and that others have navigated similar paths. Additionally, these quotes can inspire reflection and growth, encouraging individuals to break free from negative cycles and foster healthier relationships. By exploring the nuances of dysfunctional families, these quotes can illuminate the path toward healing and transformation, offering hope and resilience in the face of adversity.
There are two things you can run and not hide from- God and a dysfunctional family". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack's mother, and Aliena's brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that her father had died in a dungeon, and she was legally married to Jack's stepbrother, and Ellen was an outlaw, and—She shook her head. It was no use pretending this was a normal family.
Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys’s sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material.
I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.
A family is a social system and if that system is dysfunctional, the ramifications for the children growing up within it are grave. In what is known as generational drug addiction, the adult children of drug addicts and alcoholics are quietly suffering all over the world. By the time the children have grown up, dysfunction has been deeply ingrained in mind, body and brain.
It was a love that had nothing to do with Joe Camber's day-to-day behavior toward him or his mother; it was a brute, biological thing that he would never be free of, a phenomenon with many illusory referents of the sort which haunt for a lifetime: the smell of cigarette smoke, the look of a double-edged razor reflected in a mirror, pants hung over a chair, certain curse words.
My sister only has one side of the story but she is sure that she knows the whole story because that is how the dysfunctional system works. We don’t question everyone or even consider that there may be another side to the story but instead automatically believe the one who has the most power in the relationship.
Her definition of love was obligation and guilt. It was the only love the Crow family had to offer.
We were destroying any sense of civility and decency the four of us still had. We were no longer brothers and sisters. We were members of a gang.