Sentences with phrase «in a dysfunctional family so»

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I have a very dysfunctional family dynamic and I am so passionate about ensuring that Youngling and I change our future and for our family from here on in.

and so most of my family is in Beijing which sucks cause sometimes all I want is to have the classic dysfunctional large family gathering.

-- Found they were too shy to attempt a relationship due to emotional issues from family dysfunctional dynamics — Had physical or mental disabilities that were not diagnosed, or treated, that kept them closed up and to themselves — Buried their themselves in drugs from mental and physical abuse and didn't know what to do when they finally became clean — Where hiding their sexual preferences so did not form any emotional relationships with anyone, except a few friends — Some boomers, even as young teens, found themselves in the position of taking care of a parent, usually a single parent — mother or father

In what should be a whimsical tale of an oddball dysfunctional family, we never really get the sense that we know them, mostly because the chemistry is so absent that none of them really seem to know one another.

Treeless Mountain (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in Seoul, about a six year - old girl (Hee - yeon Kim) taken out of school to care for her two year - old sister (Song - hee Kim) by their financially - struggling mother (Soo - ah Lee) who leaves them in the care of their selfish, alcoholic aunt (Mi - hyang Kim) so she can search for their deadbeat father.

There were the stereotypical characters seen in so many other movies about dysfunctional families, however none of them portrayed interestingly enough to allow me to care about or root for them.

David O. Russell has tackled dysfunctional families before in «Flirting with Disaster» and «The Fighter» and mental health in «I Heart Huckabees» so in many ways, he's on comfortable ground here and thankfully for us, it shows.

There are at least two senses in which Irmgard's awkwardly timed reaction shot underscores Fassbinder's depiction of this dysfunctional family and the emotional and transactional bonds that tie it together — or fail to do so.

Even better is the return of the guttural sound of The Blaster Beam, Craig Huxley's instrument so familiar to fans of «Star Trek: The Motion Picture» and «Dreamscape,» Given that much of the action is driven by dialogue and character, It says something about Trachtenberg's confidence in McCreary's musical storytelling ability that the whole opening plays only with score with score, setting up a highly dysfunctional nuclear family, locked in by doomsday.

These days, it has become totally acceptable for education leaders to blame poverty for our nation's achievement gap; to in effect say that all those kids can't learn in school because they're hungry, their families are dysfunctional, they are so far behind when they start Kindergarten that there's just no catching up, etc..

There is almost universally no mention of the fundamental issue of children being so stressed out and distracted from learning due to dysfunctional families and how such families are so severely impacted by the broken family policies, laws, and courts in this country.

I've not reached the stage yet where I had to recruit beta readers for my own stuff, but I have done quite a bit of beta - reading for friends with shorter works, and recently attempted to beta - read a novel for someone, but real life got in the way (my family is so dysfunctional it's not even funny), and I had to drop it.

Frequent GalleyChat contributor Cynthia Baskin is an early admirer and says, «This terrific sophomore effort is about two dysfunctional families whose lives intersect and overlap in healthy and not - so - healthy ways.

The inner - city kids going nowhere from broken and dysfunctional families would learn self - discipline and other values necessary for success in life, breaking the intergenerational cycle of hopelessness, and some of the lefty kids might become a tad bit more patriotic... or at least not so hateful of our military.

«I utilize a «systemic» approach to treating addiction and will teach family member's how to actively participate in their love ones treatment and at the same time teach them specific techniques to eliminate codependency, as well as dysfunctional and enabling behaviors, and establish healthy boundaries, so the entire family system gets well».

For over 25 years I've specialized in helping biological, legal guardian, step, foster and adoptive families with difficult or challenging children to understand and transform dysfunctional behaviors, so they may experience joy in their lives and peace in their family relationships.

My family life was so dysfunctional that my parents didn't notice I was in so much pain.