Congrats, Your Family is a Hot Mess!
What You Can Do About It
Let’s face it — you won the dysfunctional family lottery. You thought raging alcoholic fathers and emotionally checked-out mothers were just part of a normal childhood. Surprise! Not so much.
But you didn’t realize just how prize-worthy your wacky family was until college when your sweet and loving roommate gave you a look of total horror as you nonchalantly described your last holiday dinner that ended with your dad face down in the mashed potatoes. Their pep talks before exams and weekly family game nights sounded more foreign than your Spanish class.
Yet, you continued stumbling back to your danger zone each school break. Why not head home to enjoy another round of dad’s drunken verbal abuse sprinkled with some quality mother-daughter silent treatments? Your family was stuck in an endless loop of generational crazy sauce and you kept diving in for more. I mean, doesn’t everyone use holidays as an excuse to scratch old wounds and pour salt in them?
