Toxic Family Dynamics Quotes

My father told me abuse is generational.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.