My Family Object Relation Theory

My family hasn’t been the most happiest or most communicative family at all throughout my life. My parents don’t have a happy marriage and my dad feels like he is allowed to be a tyrant just because he is the father figure of the family. There was a lack of understanding of not only mental abuse but also each other’s opinions about problems of the family. There was an idea that power is the way to conquer everything that comes your way, both mentally and physically.

We felt like we could have been a happy family but not it feels like a family that been divided into two sides of a war.

My parents don’t have a happy marriage and that ends up affecting how the family is with how everyone acts. This relates to me with the Object relations theory

My parents have changed now and understand that is the wrong way to raise a child but the damage had already been done with my brother. My brother has grown to be more mentally unstable and uses the fact that he was abused to be used as an excuse for all his actions. However, due to the fact that my dad helped paid for his expenses such as his car or his college tuition, my brother is very respectful to my dad. Because of this,my family feels split in half between my mother and I and my brother and dad. This causes my family to feel like two sides that are in war with one side unwilling to hear the other side of the argument. My brother and dad’s side represents a side that are stubborn and refuse to listen to other sides and perspectives because they refuse to believe that they are wrong no matter what with my oldest brother being the neutral party for both sides. My Family not being close to me at all except my mother because she is better at understanding other people’s emotions and perspectives compared to my father and brother. For a long time, this family used to believe that power makes right and that if you were to be depressed, you would just need to fight it off yourself and that it would be ridiculous to let such a stupid emotion control you. However as time passed, my mother and I learned that this was not the proper way to treat depression as when you try

My brother tries to have our dog all to himself and he believes that the dog is the only family member that loves him other than dad. I believe that it has been easier for my family to deal with each other but I didn’t find it to be healthy for the whole family. Our relationships never improved, only stayed and stagnated. How this has changed is that my mother had grown stronger because of my influence and she has been able to argue back against my