While there are many definitions of dysfunctional family, I would want to share what love truly looks like, in functional families:
- People have a life of their own, outside of the lives with their spouses. Regardless of whether they are working or not, functional people always figure out something to love themselves first.
- Functional people take care of their physical health, mental health and emotional health themselves, so that they could be more loving for their family.
- Just because a husband says “you just let it be” to a problem stated by a wife, does not make him a good husband. A good couple sit and listen to each other empathetically. And they solve it too.
- Their life does not end up when kids arrive. They love their kids, but they don’t stop loving themselves.
- Most importantly, people who are functional know how to love themselves enough, so they have so much power of love that they can understand their family too, instead of getting victimised by them.
