Do you come from a dysfunctional family?

Yes, very much so. Just like the other 99.99 % of the population that has been raised by humans ;-D

Doesn't everybody? I think all families are disfunctional in their own ways. So, yes, I come from a disfunctional family and my own family is disfunctional, but we try to make the best of things.

yep....I always thought I was the one that was dysfunctional until after many years of professional counselling I realised that they were very dysfunctional and liked to hang their crap on me.......I have absolutly nothing to do with these people and Im finally free.

lol. I have the typical American family. An alcoholic uncle, a lesbian aunt, an overbearing mother, a father that was in the Army and ran the house like a drill instructor, a brother that's a pothead, a militant feminist sister, a carousing grandfather and a grandmother in denial of the carousing grandfather and the gay aunt. And last but not least the guilt our catholic priest bestowed upon us like clockwork every Sunday at mass. So no, no dysfunction here.....

So, a crazy-short version of my life;

I grew up in the perfect home. A well off family including; a professor-of-law daddy, a stay-at-home mommy, an older sister, and a younger brother.
At age five, my sister went to live with *her* father in Florida.
At seven, I found out that Daddy was actually just my step-daddy - and my mom, brother, and I left to live at my maternal grandparent's. This was April. We eventually got a house close by during the divorce.
The next Febuary, I answered the phonecall. It was my grandmother sobbing, "Becky's been in an accident, Becky's been in an accident!" We flew down to FL and took my sister off of life support. She was in a head-on-collision on her way to school without wearing her seatbelt going around some country backroad corner too fast.
The courts awarded custody of my brother to the man I had grown up with as my Father, taking him from our mother, a month later.
I went from being the middle child to being the only child.

Ten years later, my mother is the middle of another divorce.
She and I are pretty much roommates.
And she claimed at my brother's birthday dinner tonight that she "is practically engaged again."
My brother has become busy with his own life at his own home and barely visits us any more.
I have never had any contact with my biological father.

It's a little aggravating.
And waaay dysfunctional.

You could say that.

dysfunctional doesnt quiet cut it..

I'm 19, my mom is only 34.

My 36 year old dad has a 22 year old gf (keep in mind I am 19).

There you go!

yes I did. But the worst part is phrasing it that way implies shame on the part of the person who came from that, when it was not their fault in the first place. They should not be blamed for their parents mistakes. If people could realize this, they will not pass on any of it to their own family. And they will also be able to forgive their family of origin without judging.

A worse place to be in is a dysfunctional workplace.

yes i came from a split up family

My parents were wonderfully normal people, well slightly warped senses of humor but other than that lol but my Mom's family WHOOOO! big Italian family! you never knew who was going to be pissed at who lol so I have a dysfunctional extended family... life was still far from perfect though... unfortunately I got most of the problems...

Don't we all, in some way or another?

My grandparents had 2 daughters, ten years apart. They never got along. But both got knocked up and married young to their high school boyfriends, both named John. Both had a daughter, and divorced before she was 2 yrs old and both moved home to live with their parents.

My cousin and I are 8 years apart, grew up in our grandparents house like sisters and rarely got along. We both had life changing events in our 20's that estranged each of us from our mothers for years.

We 3 generations all lived in the same house that also had our great-grandparents living on the 2nd floor. I have fond memories of many experiences but there's many uncomfortable memories as well.

Dysfunction junction, what's your function?

Again, who doesn't?

Uh, yeah, doesn't everybody? I think "perfect" families are strange and hiding something.

my family put the fun in dysfunctional

I believe we all come from our own dysfunction. It is how we carry on when we move from our family's lives and create our own that we truly know how to overcome that and blossum where we are planted :-) Its a choice, and only we can decide how we deal with that dysfuntion in the lives we create as our own.....

My godmother is my dad's second wife's first husband's younger sister.

How's that for dysfunctional? haha

yes very much so. but i guess through the problems that comes in dysfunctional family u have to learn to live with it. in kali yuga everyone is some or more dysfunctional. but there is light at the end of the tunnel. that light is god
sri krsna the cause of all causes. if we turn to him for help he can show us how to live our life and be a real human being. human society today has engrossed themself in getting the pleasures and comforts of life to a extent that there is havoc all over the place. abortions, homosexuality, lieing deceiving backbiting and the list goes on and on. and we can be a light to the world living a righteous life so that when we die we wont be scared where we will go after we die, becz the soul lives on forever the body only dies

Disfunctional, abusive, crazy, un loving. What doesn't every family act that way? That's what my parents told me.