Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Nope, Ali’s waiting on you. He’s in there watching some cockamamie show about a dysfunctional family that makes duck calls.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.” — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club. — Martha MacIsaac Copy Share Image
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“It’s perplexing how family members claim their undying love for us. They can say whatever they choose, but their actions and behaviors… — Dana Arcuri, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach Copy Share Image
“My brother and I had always been very close, especially living in such a dysfunctional family environment. My earliest memories were of… — Kristen Middleton Copy Share Image
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I come from a very dysfunctional family, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because… — Kerli Copy Share Image
“If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don’t you think they’d be selling it?” “I… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
“Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are.… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
“If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends.… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“Mhisery found comfort in the fact Quinn saw her as a woman. He saw past the tattoos, the piercings, and the attitude.… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
“but we dare never count on legislation or political parties to accomplish what only God's people functioning as the church can do.… — Craig L. Blomberg Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever signed onto anything as quickly as I did The Hollars, because I come from a really loving,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners… — Arne Duncan 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
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“There exits within the ecclesia and among its citizens a phenomena I refer to as 'Spiritual Correctness'. Essentially it says: 'Don't say… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“Sibling abuse didn’t just happen to you. It didn’t only happen to me. It has happened to millions upon millions of people… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
“Thus polyvictimization or complex trauma are "developmentally adverse interpersonal traumas" (Ford, 2005) because they place the victim at risk not only for… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being… — Beatrix Campbell 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
“After spending five decades of being beaten down, mistreated, and stabbed in the back, little Dana grew up. Little Dana fearlessly faced… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
![“A lot can happen [because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the…” quote by Nikki Sixx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2c/nikki-sixx-1436_certain_a-lot-can-happen-because-of-the-dysfunct_943058.png)
