Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until your physically no longer there.

Kim Gordon
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Families are like little villages. You know where everything is, you know how everything works, your identity is fixed, and you can't really leave, or connect with anything or anybody outside, until your physically no longer there. I love this quote because I find it to be true. Once you're born into a family, you're stuck by them for life.

You can't really leave or connect with anything or anybody outside the family without feeling guilty about it. For example, if someone wants to go to college and get a degree and move out of their parents' house and move in with their boyfriend/girlfriend and get a new job and make their own life, they will feel guilty about it because they had promised to stay with their parents forever and never leave them.

Source: Girl In A Band

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