Dysfunctional Family Dynamics Quotes

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.

I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.

I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

I come from a very dysfunctional family, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because I didn't know anything else.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

I don't speak with my mother. Whenever I wanted to talk about my problems, she would just ask me when I was going to send her more money.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.