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Quotes About Family

So if there is one most important gift we can give to the next generation it is that of a solid and satisfying marriage relationship.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
The eight concepts of Bowen theory, in the logical progression that builds on the family as the emotional unit, are: Nuclear Family Emotional System The Differentiation of Self Scale Triangles Cutoff Family Projection Process Multigenerational Transmission Process Sibling Position Societal Emotional Process.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
The last concept to be added to Bowen theory is that of societal regression. It notes that, periodically, as anxiety begins to run higher in society, regressed behavior can be noted on a massive scale. A hallmark of such an anxious period is the unwillingness of families or other institutions of society (such as the court system) to take responsibility when behavior breaks down.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
Sometimes relationships are an attempt to complete the self the same way it was completed in the original family system.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
Triangles are ubiquitous and automatic in emotional systems. They are considered, in Bowen family systems theory, to be the molecule, or basic building block of any system of people—be it the family, an organization, or society itself. The goal is not how to get out of them, however, but rather how to manage oneself in and through them.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
The most common and important triangle that people find when they begin to examine their patterns is the one that was formed between themselves and their two parents or caregivers at birth.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
It is simplistic to advocate that if you stop worrying about your children, they'll automatically have no problems. To be alive is to have problems. But it is certain that, if children don't have their parents' concern about them added to their ordinary difficulties, they will do better. Worrying about a child does not solve the lack of differentiation of self that leads to it.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
one's family is made up of supporting players in one's personal drama. One never supposes that they starred in some possibly gaudy and certainly deeply felt show of their own.
~ Robertson Davies
Cattle die, and kinsmen die, And we will die ourselves; But fair fame never dies For the one who can achieve it.
~ Robin Artisson
Kristin realized that trying to decide when it was "safe" was no longer a reasonable method of birth control.
~ Robin Cook
He almost dreaded to find out what was going on in the hospital. It was like a sickness in his own family. Medicine had been his life.
~ Robin Cook
It was infinitely easier to deal with the complications of intracellular life than the uncertainties of child rearing.
~ Robin Cook
Thelonious had been born into extreme poverty. His mother and grandmother spent their lives scrubbing floors for a living, and his father, Thelonious, Sr., cobbled together work as an unskilled day laborer in the railroad town of Rocky Mount. His grandfathers had lived a life of debt peonage, share-cropping for ex-slave masters and surviving pretty much from meal to meal.
~ Robin D.G. Kelley
Come back, Felicia. Don't leave Frenchman's Bluff. Don't leave the children." He brushed his lips against hers, and his voice lowered. "Don't leave me. You've taught me so much already, but I have so much more to learn." She smiled a little. "What have I taught you, Mr. Murphy?" "More than you could imagine, my love. But it'll take me a lifetime to find the words to tell you.
~ Robin Lee Hatcher
Era riuscita a tenere con se un pezzo dell'anima di sua madre, che avrebbe per sempre fatto parte di lei, una spina dorsale per mantenerla forte negli anni a venire, un secondo cuore che avrebbe battuto nel suo petto.
~ Robin Maxwell
I didn't want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.
~ Robin McKinley
Little John, watching her standing next to her brother, half-glowering in the old Cecil manner and half-comforted by Robin's words, saw for a moment what it had been like for her as Will's litter sister. Some of what she was good at, and some of what she was bad at, as his pupil, came clear to him in that moment; and something else came clear to him too, but he set it aside so quickly that he allowed himself not to recognize it for what it was.
~ Robin McKinley
including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly--
~ Robin McKinley
Her betrothed is a lout, her father is a boor; and now her brother is trailing around looking like a thunderstorm about to burst. Men are not sensible creatures.' 'Thank you,' said Robin.
~ Robin McKinley
They could at least part with love. It was like Tor to make the gesture; her father, for all his kindness, was too proud—or too much a king; and she was too proud, or too bitter, or too young.
~ Robin McKinley
It is halfway true that if you are involved in a family coffeehouse you don't have a life.
~ Robin McKinley
I don't even know your name." He smiled. "I'm afraid I no longer remember it. You will have to name me. Come; introduce me to your family. I am looking forward to meeting them.
~ Robin McKinley
In a severely dysfunctional home such as this, where there are apparently insurmountable difficulties, the family will focus on other, simpler problems that hold some promise of being solvable. Lisa's schoolwork and grades thus became everyone's focus, including Lisa's. The family needed to believe that this problem was one which, if rectified, would bring harmony.
~ Robin Norwood
Dependen?a de munc? este una din modalit??ile folosite adeseori de b?rba?ii din familiile cu disfuc?ionalit??i pentru a se evita pe sine, dup? cum a iubi prea mult este unul din primele mijloace de evitare folosite de femeile din acest tip de familii.
~ Robin Norwood