I Have a Dysfunctional Family Stories of Experiences (Page 5)

We are a family that migrated to the United States from El Salvador. Paying someone to smuggle you through the border is expensive ($7k plus). My mom was the first to come. I lived with Grandma, and my older sister with her dad. I got...

Father was an alcoholic for 35 years of his life, and a occasional drug user.
Physically present in the home, but emotionally and mentally unavailable except when it came to abuse.

Stopped drinking 6 years ago, now addicted to AA...

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...

.Was forced to move back from college (Couldn't afford it anymore, Parents credit went to shit, Home foreclosed) and I'm just not happy here. I now go to my state university, in my senior year of college, having trouble focusing and i'm...

Its always amazed me how families can act so strange. A family that shows nothing but love for one another, can turn on each other so quickly. When all what one wants is to be happy. It bothers others because its not what THEY want...

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This is going to be a hard letter to write. You were always the person I admired and now I look back and I just don't understand what it was. Why did I admire you? You were so mean to me and to others you almost got a kick out...

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...

Im a male junior in high school and I have just realized that my grades are not what they should be. For my whole school life, my parents have chosen all the classes I take (all the honors or AP classes). I don't mind honors or AP...

Last night I was trying to make dinner for my family. It was Chicken Fajitas. I was following a recipe I found online so that they would taste like Chili's Fajitas. I had done a lot of prep work earlier in the day for this meal. I had...

My dad is never home.

My mother is obsessed with death.

My brother has schizophrenia.

Everyone is on medication but me.

Lets top that off with a healthy dose of bible hysteria and jesus.

I think my sense of humor helps

but heck it...

It's difficult to share this story, it almost sounds more fiction than truth. But this happened, and I feel it's time I shared it. When I was seven I was in the claws of my parents divorce, it seemed as if I no longer existed, my...

I have 4 sisters, 3 of them are older than me, and one of them is littler than me. They're 22, 20, 15, and 7. My dad died when i was 6 months old, the 7 year old is technically a half sister, but whatevr. And life's been really hard...

Half the family isn't speaking to the other half, and the ones who are speaking are usually fighting.Except me. I speak to all of them, and I fight with none. How I manage to not get involved is beyond me. Except that I won't play their...

I'm 27 years old and the oldest of 3, my sister is 21 and my brother is 16. My parents have been married for 33 years and are very religious, they are obsessed w their religion and each other. My father has had problems w anxiety and...

My family is a loving one. I grew up to loving supportive parents. Even though they're strict, I know it's for my own good. I have two sisters who love me as well. An older sister, who in my eyes, is perfect in every aspect. And a twin...

My family life started off in a fairly normal way. I am the eldest of 4 children. My father has 3 brothers and a sister, his 3 brothers all had 4 children, so there were a lot of cousins. We went to my Grandmothers at Christmas and...

I am very angry, hurt, sad, & disappointed I am going to be very judgmental, childish, and petty as I can be because this is how I feel!

I feel like just yelling at the top of a mountain and let the world hear my roar, yet I feel if I...

On the 4th of July, five years ago, my father was in an accident that severed his head from his spine. The doctors misused a type of glue that got into his nerves and killed his nerves in his arms. He is now paralyzed from his shoulders...

In the light of recent events about a certain television personality abusing young girls, my own mother confessed to me that my step-father's friends would tell him that they thought he'd got lucky living with a teenage girl. The...

I was born on September 13, 1995. I'm 17 years old now. I grew up in a dysfunctional family, and I'm still living in the same dysfunctional family.

When I was just over a year old, a few days before Christmas, my dad left to be with...