Thank you for the kind words and the excellent, personal anecdote to illustrate the point. I think not only is the depth of understanding you illustrate important for our selves, but it is important that we change the paradigm in our Nation because the ongoing perpetuation of the illusion that families should be perfect and that having a supportive family is paramount is destroying so many people who are living the reality that this isn't true. It is so horrible how many people I know who have varying degrees of broken families and suffer from not just the dysfunction itself, but the added stress/concern that they are to blame or that it makes them a bad person, etc... We need to be free from these artificial Hallmark fantasies.
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Agreed! No one's family is picture perfect. No one should be beat themselves up or feel any type of stress or pain because their family does not reflect families from television shows. That simply isn't reality. People are flawed and imperfect and they have children and grandchildren. Just because we may come from dysfunction doesn't mean that we are automatically dysfunctional and it does not mean that we must stay in the presence of dysfunction.