Time for a reality check

[mrs_sweetpeach]

I've been watching Dr. Phil again. Tonight's show involved a three person blended family, a mother, her 17-year-old son, and the mother's current husband. Dr. Phil called his own wife up on stage and asked her what she thought of the mother's behavior. She claims to have never so much as raised her voice to her children, nor called them anything but her precious, wonderful boys. I was incredulous. In my crazy-quilt of a family, shouting was common between me and three of four of my mothers; however I am also aware that dysfunctional is probably the kindest description that can be applied to us. Is my experience the norm, or is Dr. Phil's family? Hence, a poll...

[Poll #1121356]

Comments

[auberus.livejournal.com]

My mother did yell -- but she yelled about the important things, and when she did it I knew that I'd pressed my luck as far as it would go. There was also a lot of yelling when I first came out, but she got over it, and now that I'm older, though, we tend to have what my father calls 'extremely loud debates' - and they're mostly about politics.