Quotes About Dysfunctional Relationships

#1. The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

Peter Thiel

#2. 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

#3. Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.

John C. Maxwell

#4. I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

James Caan

#5. He's a mass of contradictions. Unfortunately, that only seems to enhance his appeal. I'm one sick bitch, that's for sure.

Siobhan Davis

#6. Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

David W. Earle

#7. A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.

Keri Hulme

#8. There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.

Richard Bentall

#9. We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.

Warsan Shire

#10. This whole scenario is sick, depraved, but also grossly fascinating. I've become a Peeping Tom. And. It's. Turning. Me. On.

Siobhan Davis

#11. He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships

Henry Cloud

#12. Healthy people will marry healthy people because you will always end up with the person whom you believe you deserve.

Debra Fileta

#13. Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

James Franco

#14. 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

#15. It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Love is exactly the word I'd use...It's the only thing that comes close to describing this hell with you.

Meg Collett

#17. We're only five years apart," I said defiantly. "If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we're near normal.

Heather Heffner

#18. 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

#19. Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#20. I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

Sophie Hannah

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

David W. Earle

#24. Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

David W. Earle

#25. 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

#26. If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

David W. Earle

#27. Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

David W. Earle

#28. If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

David W. Earle

#29. Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Bell Hooks

#30. If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.

Donna K. Childree

#31. 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