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my mother married and divorce twice. she would get in abusive relationships and cry for help. she lived with every single one of her adult children and went from house to house. i help her out alot with money and a place to live. she...

I am not your punching bag,
your inferior,
or your animal.

I am not made of stone,
I have feelings
and I don't forget.

Things could have been so much more,
If you only would have let it.

You were my role model,
my friend,
and my...

Please don't fall asleep, this is the short version. It is a story that I hope explains why you should never hold someone you love to tightly for you may cause permanent irreparable damage. Okay, deep sigh, here is my story.
I am the...

Everyone wants to have the perfect family. You know, the one where every one loves each other, are happy to be together, and family members gets along well with each other. Holidays are celebrated together, accomplishments are...

My mother is the definition of pure evil. She let me know at an early age that she hated me. She beat me mercilessly for no reason, has knocked teeth out of my mouth when I was 12, refusing to replace it. Denied me basic necessities...

That sounds lame, maybe, but my mother can be scary. She has extreme mood swings, and even to this day I don't know how to deal with her. She will want to go out for mother daughter time, when maybe the night before she called...

Funny how I view dysfunction as "normal" until I see what a normal life actually is.

Sometimes my family reminds me of a bunch of string, tied together tighter then what is comfortable. I'm the stray piece trying to cut myself loose...

Once on yellow paper with green lines he wrote a poem, And he called it "Chop" because that was the name of his dog, and that's what it was all about. And his teacher gave him an A and a gold star, And his mother hung it on the kitchen...

My mother was molested by her father (we (grandkids) called him PawPaw). He is dead now. Thank GOD! He molested her in their tiny trailer home back in the sixties. She said he started when she was 10 & it went on until the was 14 or 16...

i could write a book on my family...its crazy..I use to let it bother me over and over and get stressed out. NOT ANYMORE..I am old enought to do what i would like and really do not care what they think. My grandmother raised me, my...

Up until about age 5 I thought my family was just normal like everybody else. I am one of 5 children with two older brothers and two younger sisters. However this would soon change for the worse.
I remember sitting down for dinner one...

I try so hard. To be perfect. To forget what I've lost. What I'm still losing. To get over having to grow up so fast. It's so hard when no one notices. When no one cares the way you wish they would.When you're so broken you can't trust...

I am Lexi, and my family is fucked up. I'm sixteen years old and I have to get my feelings out to someone, so thank you for listening. My mother had me at a very young age. She got pregnant her senior year of high school at 18, and had...

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 am the eldest of 4 children. I was born a year and a half after my parents were married. The 2nd child, my half-sister was born 13 months after me. Her birth was the result of an affair between my father and another woman. Take a...

There's mini dysfunctions, i call those imperfections, and big dysfunctions, don't know what those are called. Insanity maybe?
My parents are divorced. My dad remarried. I've jst come to really respect and idolize my stepmom. Made...

I've been doing pretty well so far on my self injury but it seems the people closest to me are my biggest triggers. I love them all and don't want to hurt them. And some I don't have any choice whether or not to see them. Like my...

    It all begins with an Alcoholic father who was very abusive to my Mom and to us Children, Not only physical abuse but sexual abuse to me as a 13 year old child, I know he had to have done the same things...

Dearest Daughters,
Life is what you make it. Make choices you can live with—it’s not just about you.

I was around while many of those I knew died without a happy ending. Proving to me that life is definitely what you make of it. My...

Hi, I am the mum of three daughters twins aged almost 41 I shall call them Amy & Michelle for this page and my youngest is 39, will call her Becky, she ran away from home at the age of 17 because her then boyfriend was manipulative and...