“Family dysfunction is progressive. It never stays the same. As it progresses, appropriate boundaries between parent and child may become nonexistent and communication becomes increasingly strained.”
Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated
“There's nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship when it services the needs and feelings of a parent rather than the child.”
Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated
“I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then to resent her for it.”
Source: The Crane Husband
“As long as the abuse or neglect experienced in childhood remains buried within, we re-recreate our family in adult relationships.”
Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated
“Assigning responsibility where it rightfully belongs is the first crucial step in gaining access to one's true feelings, needs, and wants.”
Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated
“All families function as a system in which one person's actions affect another and vice versa.”
Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated
“You're too young to have to cross things off a list. You worry too much."
But I kept writing. Someone had to remember to do things.”
Source: Keeper of the Night
“If they fear you, they won't hesitate to choose your enemy over you. But is they love you, they will do anything for you.”
Source: The Cavalier
“Everything can be redefined in this world, that needs one's determination and dedication.”
Source: My Quest For Happy Life
“To ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you: something else is hurting you—that's why you need pot, or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think. Or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. Or Vietnam or Israel or the fear of spiders.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness