6 Sure Ways to Become the Crazy Family Member!

Selma Cobb Dean
3 min readApr 28, 2020

You never want to be the crazy family member. But just in case, here are six sure ways to get there.

  1. Never say how you truly feel because you don’t want to hurt another’s feelings.

The crazy ones are not always the screaming relatives who will tell you exactly how they feel. (They may be rude or unthoughtful, but not crazy). The crazy person is you or me trying to get everyone to love us by never expressing our true feelings. Stop that!

Express your true feelings when asked! Defend yourself if needed. But remember the Golden Rule: “Speak to others the way you’d like to be spoken to.”

2. Compare yourself to another family member.

Maybe you look up to all the successful, high achievers in your family. Maybe, you are the only high achiever in your family and don’t understand why the others won’t get off their duff!

Either way, if you’re always measuring yourself against someone else, you lose. We all have different purposes and callings in life. Start putting all your efforts into being the person you were created to be!

3. Make sure everything you do is perfect (My Way or the Highway).

It is not that anything we perfectionists do is ever perfect. It’s that we drive ourselves crazy trying…

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Selma Cobb Dean

I am a Doctor of Pastoral and Community Counseling, ordained minister, writer, wife, mother, and adoring grandma! You can find me at www.selmadean.com.