Kathy Najimy Quotes

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

Every family argues and goes through things.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

Everybody's family has problems.

I've dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me.

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Every family is dysfunctional.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

No family is sane, is it?

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.