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My dad killed himself, my step dad was abusive whilst I was growing up, and my grandad was my step dads ex wife father who she disowned. My step brother is gay, which at the time wasn’t trendy so people got treated even worse then than they do now. My sister used to run to her mums every time she got into fights at our house, and I have a half brother I have never met from an affair my real dad had before he died. And I was a drug addict at age 11
I think most people can paint a story like that. My mum is literally the only constant in my life, and I don’t know what I’d do without her. She is the best.
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So much abuse… But I still love them it’s a really weird dynamic
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Sorry for your loss @Joker 
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I didn’t really lose anything as I never knew him. He killed himself when I was 3 years old.
He was an alcoholic and cheated on my mum and then when the consequences came when he lost his garage, he topped himself.
Although from 4 to 18 my step dad was a prick, we get on now for the most part, and he has been there more than my real dad ever was.
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Ya, I did. But people have had it worse.
I’m not sure. My parents weren’t very emotionally demonstrative , but maybe that was par for the course with middle class people at that time.
They argued a lot. I was often blamed for them arguing .
My parents fought quite a bit, but whose doesn’t honestly. Otherwise I had a good childhood
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How do you define dysfunctional? My dad has schizophrenia and wouldn’t really interact, he just sat there and would yell random things.
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My father had a stroke near the time I was born and my parents later divorced and had a lot of animosity toward eachother. Some have said we had the strangest family. I guess we all were pretty odd and functional yet dysfunctional.
Yes, indeed… That was a trauma
Hard to say, I knew no other way, there were mistakes, but good times
No, I wouldn’t call it dysfunctional. There were some issues and I was sexually abused in the (extended) family. But overall there was also lots of love, care, structure and more such things that kids need.
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My mom had some trouble with my dad early in the marriage. She used to put the frustration on me a lot.
We’re cool now- we’re just hanging out and spending time with each other.
Like most families, mine was dysfunctional but very loving.
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My parents are very religious but I don’t think I’d say dysfunctional.
My parents did the best they could, but I felt my mother was cold and didn’t really understand me. We have a great relationship now though.
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Everybody in my immediate family was wonderful except my father. He was physically, mentally and sexually abusive throughout my childhood and adolescence. He was mentally abusive my whole life. My mother was his slave and doormat.
My extended family was racist and rejecting of my whole immediate family, except my (white) mom.
Yes mental illness isvery common in my family
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In my family are people who are black/white, Korean (adopted), Chinese (adopted), Mexican/white and Ecuadorian/white (my daughter). If my family didn’t accept people regardless of ethnicity there’d be nobody at the family reunion!!!