“Boundary violations are deeply experienced.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.” — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.” — Donna K. Childree Copy Share Image
“Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.” — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.” — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others,… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“If a man was around when Aunt Kathy came by, she would berate him and throw him out. I even saw her… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Thomas had a younger sister, Ester, who was a facsimile of the womanizer brother, who had behaviors that mirrored her brother’s treatment… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“My sister only has one side of the story but she is sure that she knows the whole story because that is… — Darlene Ouimet Copy Share Image
“No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“To cope, he and his siblings – older and younger sisters, a younger brother - created a game called Henry Kissinger. Palahniuk… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“Society gives the image of sexual violators as weird, ugly, anti-social, alcoholics. Society gives the impression that violators kidnap children are out… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“I knew Dad was concerned about my past associations. I was from the Trash Alley. It was my community. I hung out… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported,… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“My mother's mouth drops. 'Emmy...don't say those things Emmy. Remember, we don't talk about those things.' 'Yes Mom. I remember. That's why… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to develop a proper sense of self-esteem in a dysfunctional family. Having very little self-worth, looking at one’s… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
