Is your family disfunctional?

[pink]

My mother is a control freak but I still try to spend time with her. I can't ever seem to do anything right when it comes to my siblings. I really honestly think if I died, they would shed no tears.

I will say, that my daughter and I are close, which to me is the most important. I'm far from being the perfect mom but she still seems to love me a lot.


How do you feel about your family? Are you close?

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I think all families are dysfunctional.

 

[pink]

I think all families are dysfunctional.

I hope that is not true. I want a healthy relationship with my daughter.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I'm not a psychologist, and I know better than to generalize. But, I just think all families have their issues and it's not a bad thing, it just is. You and your daughter (your grown daughter, right? You should already know that you have a healthy relationship) could have a close relationship, and your extended family have issues like the rest of ours.

 

[kbate]

Our dysfunction is inversely proportional to the range between our locations. But we all pretend well.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Having both parents dead helps.

 

[Saint Peter]

Our dysfunction is inversely proportional to the range between our locations. But we all pretend well.

1/r^2

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Having both parents dead helps.

Not in my case. Still have lots of other relatives.

 

[pink]

I'm not a psychologist, and I know better than to generalize. But, I just think all families have their issues and it's not a bad thing, it just is. You and your daughter (your grown daughter, right? You should already know that you have a healthy relationship) could have a close relationship, and your extended family have issues like the rest of ours.

You can have my extended family. lol

 

[Eyereadtoo]

Not in my case. Still have lots of other relatives.

I don't.

 

[kbate]

1/r^2

You forgot to account for pretense, that's (1/r²)/(i/r²)

 

[pink]

Our dysfunction is inversely proportional to the range between our locations. But we all pretend well.

I love you, k but sometimes I don't understand a word you say.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

You can have my extended family. lol

I've already got my hands full. Thanks, though.

I don't.

Pink has some to spare if you'd like. You wouldn't want mine; trust me.

 

[kbate]

I love you, k but sometimes I don't understand a word you say.

/sigh (yes, this is for the poster sigh)

I am happily 400 miles from my Mum, who loves me very much when she wishes to visit grandchildren.

 

[Mr Noone]

Magic 8-Ball says: Tolstoy.


"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.

 

[pink]

It is strange not to like your family. My siblings, most of the time, I don't love them either. Not anymore.


My daughter sees that we (my side of the family) are not close. She says the family dynamic is weird. Her Dad's side is so much different than my side.


Anyway...I was just curious if you actually like your family? Sorry for babbling.

 

[pink]

/sigh (yes, this is for the poster sigh)

I am happily 400 miles from my Mum, who loves me very much when she wishes to visit grandchildren.

Gotcha.


400 miles sounds wonderful to me.

 

[pink]

Magic 8-Ball says: Tolstoy.


"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.

Dude, that is deep.

 

[Mr Noone]

Dude, that is deep.

Well that's why he got the big rubles and a peerage.

 

[pink]

Well that's why he got the big rubles and a peerage.

I feel dumb for asking but what is a peerage? Is it like being knighted?

 

[yossi]

We most definitely are dysfunctional, but I like the majority of my family.

 

[luxey313]

What's dysfunctional to you may be my norm.
Placing realistic expectations on myself & others helps.
Letting people be where they're at & also knowing they do their best. ( it might not be my best- but that doesn't matter.)
And also, many people are shitheads.
Keep your pack small.

 

[jezzilee]

It is strange not to like your family. My siblings, most of the time, I don't love them either. Not anymore.


My daughter sees that we (my side of the family) are not close. She says the family dynamic is weird. Her Dad's side is so much different than my side.


Anyway...I was just curious if you actually like your family? Sorry for babbling.

I like my family, I only have one sister and my mother left, some aunts uncles and one grandma but we all get together and there is the yearly family reunion...

 

[Mr Noone]

I feel dumb for asking but what is a peerage? Is it like being knighted?

Even better. He was made a Count. And got Christopher Plummer to play him in a film and Hellen Mirren to play his wife.

 

[Adre]

I like my family, they're nice. I enjoy my friends more.