49 Quotes About Family Problems

Dealing with family conflicts can require its own arsenal of coping mechanisms. These quotes about family problems remind us of the challenges and difficulties we have to face emotionally and physically at times.

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”

“After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.”

“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”

“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.”

“Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.”

“Everybody’s family has problems.”

“Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with.”

“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”

“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

“Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle.”

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.”

“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close- knit family in another city.”

“I can’t say it’s not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.”

“I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.”

“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

“In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.”

“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”

“It doesn’t matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.”

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

“Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they’ve had the same argument hundreds of times.”

“My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys.”

“No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.”

“No one’s family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.”

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”

“Otherwise, you just become partners managing the kids and life, and that makes your marriage more vulnerable to problems down the road.”

“Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.”

“The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.”

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career. ”

“The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us.”

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”

“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”

“To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.”

“We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models – most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.”

“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.”

“We’re a very close family and we’re a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.”

“When she can’t bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”

“When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you.”

“Writers will happen in the best of families.”

“You can’t teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.”

There are many ways and strategies you can follow to restore and repair your relationships with relatives.