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[quote=Anonymous]I have a very good relationship with my family of origin (parents and older sister), a very good marriage, terrific inlaws who I adore and who adore me, and very good relationships with my own two kids.

I give a ton of credit to my parents, who were and are very sane and loving people.  I had a stable childhood and they worked hard to provide that.  I always knew that they would take care of me.  A lot stemmed from their very stable (but not perfect) marriage.  I certainly remember hearing my parents fight when I was a kid, but they fought fair, made up, and never dragged us into it.  No one in my immediate family has ever been big on drama.  My husband and his family are the same -- I would not have married someone who wasn't fundamentally rational and caring.

Yet both my parents came from rather disfunctional families.  My mother's mother was very pushy and difficult, and my mother's sister had serious mental health issues that deeply affected my mom.  My father's parents were indifferent bordering on neglectful.  All the more reason to be thankful to them for creating for me and my sister something they didn't have themselves.[/quote]

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