Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.
In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family's made you who you are, whether you've spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
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