Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
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.
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.