I Have a Dysfunctional Family Stories of Experiences

My mother rents the house that once belonged to her aunt. Her cousin inherited the house. She lives out of state. Once or twice a year she shows up unexpected on my mom's doorstep. Since she "owns" the house she uses it like the Holiday...

I was doomed from the start. My father was a foreigner with barely 1 year in the country and got arrested shortly after I was conceived. He was looking at 25 to life for a carjacking gone horribly wrong. That's right...he killed a man...

Does someone really have to be blood to be family? I don't think so. Many of my friends whom i've come to love and cherish I consider to be more of my family than my 'real' family. Truth is, if I honestly had the opportunity to pick my...

So for the past 10 years or so, my family has been in world war 3. I am 18 years old and my only brother is 23 years old.

He is absolutely horrible. He is evil, manipulative, psychotic, delusional, violent, abusive, ignorant, selfish...

My sexuality has been unsettling me for decades. I grew up in a Fundamentalist Christian household. I was first molested by a cousin when I was 3 or 4 years old and then by neighborhood boys from approximately 7 years old to 11 years...

SO.... You wanna know about my dysfuctional family? Well, I'm not paying you (Like A therapist) and they do say talking helps. So here is the story of my family life...

I have a would -be 29 year old brother James. I'll explain the...

I've been in Foster Care since I was 14. My mom is bipolar and schizophrenic. I've been through a good share of foster homes even up until today. I always did well in school until my little family fall out at home. I stopped attending...

I realize that you are traveling to ********* next week; however, I have very hard feeling toward you and the rest of the family. I really do not know, if I can move past the family favoritism (toward your family) and the harsh words...

So here's the general layout. I'm 21, full-time student, still living with my folks while I'm slogging through my engineering degree - I'm kind of poor so I can't just move out without racking up tons of debt and stressing out...

So my brother has a very bad attitude lately. He is snapping at everyone. He claims He owns basically everything in this place and its getting on everyone's nerves. My name is on the rental agreement as well as his but he claims it is...

I know this is probably a normal thing, but it doesn't feel like it. I see friends where the mums and dads get along well most of the time, yeah they have their arguments but they patch those up quickly or after a while of talking...

If you were to wader deep into my family's history you would see that the dysfunction the unacceptable behavior and most popular the high mistreatment of children have been craved in my family's tree for generations. Due to my...

My family is having some problems that I am trying my hardest to deal with and fix. But it's hard to deal with something that you shouldn't even have to be thinking about in the first place. If there was anything I could do to make them...

So I've come to this site because I just want to share my story in the hopes that someone will give me some advice, because my family is in a bad place right now and I thought things were finally turning around for us but it turns out...

Growing up I had no idea what a normal family was like. I wasn't even aware that mine was abnormal as we were sheltered and I didn't have a frame of reference.  All I knew was that I was unhappy and that it seemed no one got along.  I...

My mother was born in 1958. She is still alive. She is wonderful & encouraging & strong & I love her regardless. She is a middle child & the only daughter to her parents. Her mother had a miscarrage before her. God has given me a...

My mother had me when she was 16 years old still in high school and my father was going no where in life. My mother has 5 children total and my father has 6 children total. My parents divorced when I was 3 and I did not meet my father...

All I ever wanted was to be a normal girl with a normal family and a normal life. which is the exact opposite of what I ended up with. I need to share my story. Im sick of hiding & pretending to be that "normal" girl that I'm not.

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My Mother, simply put, is the meanest person I know. She is a psychotic, a tyrant, and a bully all rolled into one. My parents split up when I was around 5-6 years old. I'm not exactly sure of the year their final split was made, nor...

I can tell you're not happy with her, so why do you stay?
She's brought out the worst in you, you're a whole different person.
I see the real you sometimes, when were alone.
I miss my old dad.. hes now emotionally vacant.
where'd you go...