Top 63 Quotes About Dysfunctional Love
#1. When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.
David W. Earle
#2. The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.
David W. Earle
#3. Everyone is screwed up, the ones who try to say they aren't, they're the ones who are the worst off.
Holly Hood
#4. I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Jay Roach
#5. I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.
Yony Leyser
#6. Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.
David W. Earle
#7. Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and allow the best part of ourselves to connect with the wondrous parts of others. Allow yourself to connect in a deeper and more profound way.
David W. Earle
#8. With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.
David W. Earle
#9. An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.
Bell Hooks
#10. The strange part about a person's lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
David W. Earle
#11. We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.
Warsan Shire
#12. You are perfect in your own dysfunctional way. And it's exactly what I want. - Fenn
Candace Knoebel
#13. Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.
David W. Earle
#14. Lucy- "Wow, no one ever fights over me."
Justin- "My multiple personalities fight over you constantly. There is a war going on inside me."
Rue- "This is for the war going on outside.
Holly Black
#15. Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.
David W. Earle
#16. It's good to learn early that every show is a family
complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness ...
Kristin Chenoweth
#17. Learning to love yourself is the essence of receiving God's love. It is the ointment that brings healing to your wounded soul. Until we receive God's love and learn to love ourselves because of it, we will remain sick in our souls and live dysfunctional lives.
Joyce Meyer
#18. Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child's definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.
David W. Earle
#19. Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.
David W. Earle
#21. Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.
David W. Earle
#22. Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
David W. Earle
#23. I love you, Essie. Before you came into my life, I had considered ending myself. Three hundred years is a long time to be alone. You've given me hope, a career as a drag queen and a dysfunctional family. I am supremely grateful. Bite me." And
Robyn Peterman
#24. Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not enough. This is a painful realization so often they hide behind righteous arrogance.
David W. Earle
#25. Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.
David W. Earle
#26. I know you deserve better than me. You think I don't know that? But if there was any woman made for me ... it's you.
Jamie McGuire
#27. You're not flying the sanity kite very high either..so lets be crazy together
Meg Collett
#28. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same
i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him
Rupi Kaur
#29. Love is exactly the word I'd use...It's the only thing that comes close to describing this hell with you.
Meg Collett
#30. The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.
David W. Earle
#31. They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring ...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.
Brian Yorkey
#32. Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.
David W. Earle
#33. It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
David W. Earle
#34. This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.
David W. Earle
#35. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.
Rosamund Hodge
#36. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.
David W. Earle
#37. Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
David W. Earle
#38. Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally.
Christopher Dines
#39. Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
Bell Hooks
#40. The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.
David W. Earle
#41. If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
David W. Earle
#42. Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.
David W. Earle
#43. People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.
David W. Earle
#44. Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.
David W. Earle
#45. Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.
David W. Earle
#46. It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.
Pat Conroy
#47. If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
David W. Earle
#48. Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves.
David W. Earle
#50. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.
David W. Earle
#51. What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence?
David W. Earle
#53. When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.
David W. Earle
#54. Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
David W. Earle
#55. Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.
Na'ama Yehuda
#56. Who was I to meddle in people's love lives? Mine was a mess. My heart
wanted the one thing it wasn't allowed to have - love with someone besides my
cupid-appointed soul mate. I was so screwed up, I made the dysfunctional
relationships on Jerry Springer look wholesome.
Jenn Windrow
#57. Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
David W. Earle
#58. Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy
David W. Earle
#60. Being able to say, "No," is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.
David W. Earle
#61. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.
David W. Earle
#62. When one person attempts to "fix it" for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
David W. Earle
#63. I love books about dysfunctional families.
Sara Shepard
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