Some things I refuse to talk about on social networking sites. Some things are off limits, like issues with family.
There is no such thing as the perfect family. Every family is unique with its own combination of strengths and weaknesses.
Burdens and opposition will always be there. What is really needed is a clear solid path towards problem resolution and then being mutually encouraged as a family.
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories… money, health or relationships.
Running away from your family’s problems will not provide solutions. What you really want are solid solutions and a reasonable plan to address family conflict and pain.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. – Mignon McLaughlin
Problems are like washing machines. They twist us, spin us and knock us around but in the end we come out cleaner, brighter and better than before.
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.
A busy mother makes slothful daughters. – Portuguese Proverb
You can’t teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. – Bertrand Russell
Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they’ve had the same argument hundreds of times.
I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with. – Roger Ebert
How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend! – Pope Francis
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk. – Dalai Lama
Pick a dysfunction and it’s a family problem.
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. – William R. Alger
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy
Everybody’s family has problems.
Otherwise, you just become partners managing the kids and life, and that makes your marriage more vulnerable to problems down the road
Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle
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