Family Psychology Quotes

Men often marry their mothers.

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

The idea that a lot of sons marry their mothers subconsciously, which I have done in my own life, was interesting to explore.

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.