
Not cloudy, not rosy, but not dysfunctional. |
Every family is different. My mom’s family is very dysfunctional and I don’t have a relationship with my dad’s side because of choices he made. I am close to my mom any my siblings from my mom. I don’t hate my family but my interaction with them left me feeling depressed so now I have no contact with them. |
DP. At the risk of pointing out the obvious here, you have no idea what the dynamic is like with either side her family. You're presuming that she had a close knit immediate and extended family her entire life and then dropped them when she met Harry. You have no idea whether her parents were close with their extended families. You have no idea whether she was close with any extended family growing up. Yet you're SO SURE that any lack of closeness on both sides MUST be her fault, regardless of all the other people involved or what may have occurred between family members over the years. Your insistence that she is the cause of the dynamic in her family is downright bizarre. |
I have never said it was her fault or that she is the cause of the dynamic in her family; however, that degree of dysfunction is not typical and has spilled over into her relationships with her in-laws. |
All of the people in this thread (or maybe it's just the one) high-horsing and prattling on and on about how everyone is obligated to be besties with all of their extended family sound EXACTLY like the one relative that everyone secretly hates and finds desperately annoying. Get a life. |
It’s really not. A lot of times people from toxic families are drawn to each other. My in laws were both from really abusive families. It’s hard for people who haven’t experienced that type of dysfunction to relate and there’s a lot of shame in not having the “normal” family experience. |
+1. We're talking about the British Royal Family on one hand, quite literally one of the most famous dysfunctional families in all of history. On the other hand, you have just two parents (do these people not know how one-child families work?). Not sure why that's so difficult to understand for the hatesquad. |
Also, we're ignoring the fact that Samantha Markle's own daughter and grandmother defended Meghan and denounced Samantha's ridiculous attacks. Remember, also, that Samantha is on record for giving Doria the nickname "the maid". The Markles from Thomas's side all come off terrible, and it says so much about the haters that they stand firmly on their side. I couldn't imagine having a father or half-siblings who would repeatedly go to the media to trash talk me and then being expected to still be lovey-dovey with them. I would have excised them from my life for half as much. |
Hmmm...what if your daughter-in-law went on Oprah and trash talked her in-laws?? |
Making observations about family dysfunction does mean a person hates anyone. |
Meghan trash talked who? She spoke at length about her difficulties with the press and feeling like she didn't have support, which is totally fair. She had rave reviews for The Queen, and even said some nice things about Kate. You seem like a very fragile and sheltered person. |
You are implying that she is at the root of the dysfunction by stating that it's "strange" she has no close family relationships. Don't try to walk it back now. Also, "that degree of dysfunction" is much more common than you think. It's just that most of us don't get our dirty laundry aired for the world to see so you may not be aware of it. Honestly, there's nothing all that unusual about her family dynamic other than the entire world knows all about it. |
does not mean |
I'm not sure you know what you're saying or who you're saying it about. |
Not walking back anything. I will repeat. It's not her fault that she comes from a dysfunctional family, but it HAS affected her and it is NOT typical to have no close family relationships other than one's mom and husband. |