Sunday, May 6, 2012

Functional or Dysfunctional


What makes a family functional or dysfunctional? Well if you have even a fraction of what my family is like, we are a mix of both.  In my opinion most families that are functional have a little dysfunctional in the mix. Who are we really to say what is functional or dysfunctional, as these mean different things to everyone. What one may call a functional family, may be quite dysfunctional to another or vice versa. When it comes to my family it seems the dysfunction actually makes us function as a family. Take out these few differences and we become a 100% totally dysfunctional family, instead of a functional family with a few dysfunctions. So why labels are easy for us to throw around when we see something that fits into our definition of functional and dysfunctional, this isn’t how others truly see the same things. I think it’s safe to say that every family have elements of both and work in their own unique way to make up the family dynamic.

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