Dealing With Dysfunctional Family

Be brave. Family betrayal and strife among kinsmen is biblical.

Having a dysfunctional relationship with relatives seems to be the norm. It really depends on the situation, but if you can, separate yourself from them.

Family is family, but often you develop stronger bonds with friends. It is not untypical to have more trust and support among friends in comparison to those in your blood family.

Often, when you interact with relatives, there seems to be a tendency for competition, envy, and jealousy. And in addition, the boundaries seem to be — well it’s almost as if they never developed. Often family members think they can say and do anything to their fellow family members.

Worse, you think that your family will be happy for you when good things come your way in your life, but often fortunate events are met with slights and contempt by those family members who may not be in your same position in terms of successful relationships, careers, being courageous, luck, and/or fortunate. Also, often you have to conform to standards and ideologies established within your family structure. In the past if your were a nonconformist or a rebel, you were known as *‘the black sheep.’ But more and more, the only survival for family relations is to be the black sheep, embrace the concept of living your life, your way, with your own standards and own beliefs regardless of what anyone in your family might say or think.

Try to put distance between you and the members of your family which ultimately do not accept who you are, or what you think. It’s about respect.

We all have freewill and the right to live our lives how we want. If you allow others to dictate to you how you should be, then you are allowing them to procure your time by proxy. You are allowing them to live their life (don’t forget our time here is limited), and your life (they are taking up your precious time and life force). Now that just isn’t fair is it?

Just because they’re your family it doesn’t mean they’re your friends.

*No racist comment intended, meant to express being different from the norm.

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