Unhelpful Families Cause Emotional Abandonment

When you go through tough times and your family doesn’t help, you simply have to accept it. However, sometimes, as well as not offering any support, they might make things even worse by judging and criticizing you. In fact, they can actually undermine your psychological resources for dealing with the difficulties you’re facing. Unhelpful families can be a real problem. Leo Tolstoy once said, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way“. That’s certainly true. Indeed, these micro universes called families that are forced onto you when you come into the world have their own peculiarities. No…