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Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.Stefan Molyneux
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You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from the majority of whistle-blower's are not being upheld, that you are living in a seriously dysfunctional society.Steven Magee
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How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.Kathryn Hurn
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Daddy is jive talkingand showering the stripper Mommy is sleepwalkingwhile changing baby's diaperCasey Renee Kiser
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Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.David W. Earle
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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
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Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.David W. Earle
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Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.David W. Earle
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Mindset will change your reality and destination. Are you ready? If yes, start THINKING victory. Trust me - you will win.Unknown
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It is very difficult to develop a proper sense of self-esteem in a dysfunctional family. Having very little self-worth, looking at one’s own character defects becomes so overwhelming there is no room for inward focus. People so afflicted think: “I need to keep you from knowing me. I have already rejected me, but if you knew how flawed I am, you would also reject me…and since this is all I have, I could not stand any more rejection. I am not worthy of someone understanding me so you will not get the chance..so I must judge, reject, attack, and/or find fault with you. I don’t accept me so how can I accept you? .David W. Earle
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This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty.David W. Earle
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The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.Amber Garibay
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Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.Mariel Hemingway
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Thomas had a younger sister, Ester, who was a facsimile of the womanizer brother, who had behaviors that mirrored her brother’s treatment of women, for she treated men the same way, for the same reasons. The younger sister had raised her sons with a hurtful echo in their minds that said ‘men are no good’, and because they heard it so much from their mother’s mouth, I feared that they would one day believe it to be true.Sara Niles
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And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard.T. Scott McLeod
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Change is threatening to the status quo.David W. Earle
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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