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Do you live in a functional family?
« on: September 17, 2006, 01:00:38 PM »
Cause if you do, I'd be damn curious how it works.
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2006, 01:25:24 PM »
define "functional"
"run with a pack, not with a herd"

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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2006, 01:27:42 PM »
 :laugh: I dunno. Loving, caring, generally happy.
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2006, 01:30:44 PM »
I think our family works- basically because we know that we all have our own little 'quirks' and happily accept each other for who we are (well most of the time anyway  :laugh:).  It isn't all plain sailing but I don't think we're disfunctional.

As for my wider family- I have parent's who have always supported me, no matter what I wanted to do. And a brother that I get on well with.  My parents are still together and have a good relationship.  Again they're not perfect, but they don't play games and are always very supportive with each other.

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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2006, 01:30:55 PM »
I'd say we're functional, in the strict sense that we're not dead.
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2006, 01:31:46 PM »
functional- the mother and wife is a saint on earth.  men lack the capacity to provide functionality in anything but machines.
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2006, 02:41:12 PM »
My wife loves me for who I am and what I bring to the relationship.  She appreciates my differences and I appreciate hers and she's a saint 99% of the time.  My daughter knows that we both love her unconditionally and she's wonderfully different.  Aspie spoken fluently in our house.  It takes love, patience, respect and the willingness to be flexible that makes us work together and we're just three weird congenial people! :P

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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2006, 02:58:09 PM »
Functional. I love my family and I think they love me.
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2006, 03:02:22 PM »
well right now we're functional but we have definitely gone through some dysfunctional periods in the past  :-\
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2006, 03:04:10 PM »
completely and utterly dysfunctional, even though it's only me.

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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2006, 03:05:50 PM »
If we were to talk about where I came from, though, it is sorta different...
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2006, 03:41:46 PM »
Interesting, most of the people posting in this thread are parents or at least older adults. I bet families seem more and more functional the older you get. That or everyone's just grown out of teenage angst.
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2006, 03:48:22 PM »
It is split, the two separate parts, dad and me, and mom and her husband, being functional.

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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2006, 03:48:41 PM »
Pyraxis, I think you're right about the angst.
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Re: Do you live in a functional family?
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2006, 03:51:43 PM »
Interesting, most of the people posting in this thread are parents or at least older adults. I bet families seem more and more functional the older you get. That or everyone's just grown out of teenage angst.
That is true somewhat
Also I think I drive my parents less crazy as I get older
"run with a pack, not with a herd"