Sentences with phrase «often dysfunctional relationship»

Often these dysfunctional relationship patterns persist throughout a lifetime, despite the best of therapeutic interventions.»

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She points out that while an older generation might have been enamoured of sex without consequences, their younger counterparts often associate such an outlook with dysfunctional relationships, broken families and personal unhappiness and by extension see the Christian vision of love as fulfilling and ultimately liberating.

«They are called «clergy killers» — congregations where a small group of members are so disruptive that no pastor is able to maintain spiritual leadership for long.And yet ministers often endure the stresses of these dysfunctional relationships for months, or even years, before eventually being forced out or giving up.

While no one would promote divorce as being some sort of wonderful event, although it often is the route out of dysfunctional or abusive relationships and can lead to amazing transformations, what these answers illustrate is that perhaps, finally, people are taking off the rose - colored glasses about the institution as well as busting the fairy - tale romantic myths we keep perpetuating about it.

Often, the stress of a dysfunctional relationship leads to wanting to be alone, but once alone, the fear of being alone and lonely takes over.

More important, though, the often comic Brazilian film contrasts a maid's affection toward her employer's child whom she treats like a second mother against her dysfunctional relationship with her own daughter whom she abandoned years back to be brought up by another woman.

Both films are hard to endure yet impossible to shake, just as dysfunctional relationships often are.

The Archway Community was based in large part on the theories of the late, radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, including his belief that the hierarchical structure of the usual doctor - patient relationship could be broken down by communal living — an effort to break the cycle of people being fruitlessly shuttled between mental hospitals and their often dysfunctional homes.

Co-parents often fail to see that there are direct correlations between putting their children in the middle of the conflict and teaching them dysfunctional relationship skills.

Clients often cling persistently to the past, where early dysfunctional patterns of relating to others created templates for future relationships, leading to undesirable or distorted beliefs and expectations of self and others.

Intimacy anorexia is type of relationship addiction (a condition in which a person has a need for love yet repeatedly enters into or creates dysfunctional relationships), and often is associated with sexual addictions.

Often individuals with relationship addictions struggle to admit that their behavior is dysfunctional.