Do you live in a functional family?

[Draggon]

i now coach soccer.  and i can tell who the functional fathers are:
they are the ones who say words like super duper or neato

Yeah but their kids are going to hate their fucking guts so bad in a few years...

[McGiver]

i think that the functional families are the positive families.

seems to me that each individual in families these days are so concerned with their own whatnots.
everybody doing their own thing.  not enough family unity or structure.
a functional family needs to realize that they are a team.  it is them against the world, united.

[Pyraxis]

Ick. If I wanted a team of me and other people against the world, I'd at least want to choose my own allies instead of being plunked down with random people.

[McGiver]

Ick. If I wanted a team of me and other people against the world, I'd at least want to choose my own allies instead of being plunked down with random people.

you may or may not understand, someday, young un!

[odeon]

Ick. If I wanted a team of me and other people against the world, I'd at least want to choose my own allies instead of being plunked down with random people.

It's funny because chances are that those random people are the ones that will stand up for you.

[renaeden]

Bumping an old thread I saw a guest looking at. It is a good question.

My parents split when I was 10. Lived with my dad for a while as it was my mum who had left. But my dad's partner (narcissist) played me and my sisters against each other so we were always fighting. Two of my sisters were favoured by her and me and my other sister (I have 3 sisters) were neglected in a lot of ways. So my mum came and got me and my sister while my dad wasn't aware of it. Then I lived with her and my first stepdad (I have had 2 stepdads, heh).

My first stepdad didn't end up marrying my mum but my second stepdad did, when I was around 21 I think and they are pretty happy now. I live with them for the majority of the time and it seems pretty functional.

[Pyraxis]

I don't even remember starting this thread. 

[Calavera]

The family itself is functional, yes. But one member in it is not.

[Callaway]

I live in a functional family.  My husband and I would do almost anything for one another and for our daughter. 

My parents were not perfect, but they loved one another and my brothers and me and they were married until my mother died.  My dad was lost without her and he died a few years later.

My husband's parents also love one another and they love their children and their children's spouses as well as their grandchildren.  They have been married for over 50 years.  He's 82 and she will be 80 on her next birthday.

[Pyraxis]

Must... resist... urge... to make... snide... comments... about... denial....

[Calavera]

Meaning? It's ok to be clarifying things.

[Callaway]

Meaning? It's ok to be clarifying things.

It was meant as a dig at my husband and me and our daughter.

[Adam]

I live in a functional family imo

Slightly weird with me in it lol, but fuctional yes

[Icequeen]

Oh hell no.

But if the world goes to hell tomorrow, I definately want them on my side. 

[WolFish]

^I could say that about my ex and my mom.

I grew up in one that was badly dysfunctional but not in the usual ways.

live in one now that is functional in some pretty awesome ways and lucky to be working on the ways in which it is not.
it is the best for me, to live with someone who is willing to fight *and* resolve things. i have grown a lot.