80+ Unsupportive Family Quotes, And Sayings

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Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you’re an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health. – Andrea Lavinthal

Your family is not your support system.

Families must be built on love, trust, and acceptance, but dysfunctional families have no such traits, which is why they are what they are. – Unknown

Family is supposed to be there for you no matter what comes your way. Shame on the ones who are not; that’s not what family is all about. – Anonymous

Shoutout to people who grew up with emotionally unsupportive parents and have to hear other people talk about how supportive their families are while you’re basically guiding yourself through life. You’re strong and brave.

Unsupportive Family Quotes

Blood makes you related, loyalty makes you family – Chris Diaz

Never let the lack of support deter your mission.

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose to be a good member of it.

Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family. – Unknown

Don’t worry about the family that ignores you and acts like you don’t matter. Love the ones who are always there for you no matter what. – Anonymous

A good friend is worth more than a bad brother. Croatian Proverb

Set healthy boundaries with unsupportive people. Release hurts by forgiving, bless their hearts, and then farewell to them.

Sometimes a family will drag you down.

A person struggling for something because of an unsupportive family has greater value than a person with a supportive family—fact of life. – Anonymous

If your family doesn’t treat you the right way, make sure you do.

Train yourself to be fueled by laughter and unsupportive people.

I was born into this family but all I got was hate in a place where I was supposed to get love and acceptance.

I wish my family was more supportive, said no one ever.

The harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters or husbands and wives, is that love is always unequal. – Karl Taro Greenfeld

A big shout out to all the kids who grew up in an unsupportive family while they hear about another supportive family around them. You have a life worth living. You are strong and brave. – Anonymous

Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out. Robert Tew

Fielding unsupportive family pressure and sticking to your healthy guns!

There is no room for unsupportive friends and family—only space for positivity.

The best way to get your parents’ attention is to ignore them.

A family can be the bane of one’s existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one’s existence. I don’t know whether my family is a bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. – Keri Hulme

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

If you’re going home to an unsupportive family this holiday season, remember that your worth is not defined by what they say or how they treat you.

If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.– William Makepeace Thackeray

Family is the place where people who love you are the ones who let you go.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. – Richard Bach

You can miss a person every day and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. – Richard Bach

The family that prays together stays together, but that costs your dreams.

Our family became a place where you screamed for help, but no one heard, not ever. – Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Family is where you’re meant to be most free. Don’t let blood chain you down. – Anonymous

Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy.

Families are forever, and I wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

At the end of every year, I look at my children and think, ‘I’m so glad we’re not strangers.

Brother or sister has no meaning if they treat each other like worst enemies – Unknown

Dear family, please continue to include me in your activities when it’s convenient for you, and then act confused and upset when I ignore you. – Anonymous

The one’s who say “you can’t” and “you won’t” are probably the ones scared that “you will

Just because they are your family doesn’t mean that they know what’s best for you or your life.

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In every family, there is at least one person who doesn’t support you.

Just because your father is present doesn’t mean he isn’t absent. – Elizabeth Acevedo

Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs—the ones who accept you for who you are. – Anonymous

I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet – Gandhi

The secret of a happy home life is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.

I got no support from my family and I hate this thing.

Being brushed aside is the easiest way to discard a child.

Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.

You need to stop doing things for someone when you find out it’s expected rather than appreciated.

Somebody told me that if you don’t like something, change it. I thought about it for a minute and then did what he said.

I was in denial of the glaring reality that my existence depended on my willingness to comply with the family policy of me earning the splinter of space they granted to me. – M. Wakefield

A lack of support from those we love most can be hugely detrimental to our mental health. – Anonymous

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.- Anthony Liccione

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as if not more than, blood. – Martina Boone

I’m so glad you’re my sister. I don’t know what I’d do without you.

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache. – Iyanla Vanzant

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. – Leslye Walton

Family or not, I will cut you off. That saying “but that’s family” means nothing if a family is toxic and means you no good. – Morgan Sharee

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. – Margaret Sanger

A family is a social system and if that system is dysfunctional, the ramifications for the children growing up within it are grave. In what is known as generational drug addiction, the adult children of drug addicts and alcoholics are quietly suffering all over the world. By the time the children have grown up, dysfunction has been deeply ingrained in the mind, body, and brain.

You’re so supportive, so understanding, and so helpful. You’re the best sister in the world!

A dysfunctional family is not a family at all. It’s a toxic relationship parading as a requirement. – Unknown

If someone isn’t available during your most crucial, then their presence at any other time is useless.

You can love them, forgive them, and want good things for them…but still, move on without them. – Mandy Hale

Stop expecting loyalty from people who can’t even give you honesty.

In my family, strangers are relatives. – Kate Rockland

Family always comes first. Family can make or break you. Family should always be there for you, no matter what.

Make sure everybody in your “boat” is rowing and not drilling holes when you’re not looking. Know your circle.

Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond. – Itohan Eghide

I may not have a family of my own, but every one of my friends has become my family by choice.

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. – Margaret Sanger

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. – Susan Forward

Sometimes you have to move on without certain people. If they’re meant to be in your life, they’ll catch up. – Mandy Hale

If I cut you off, you’ve handed me the scissors. – Unknown

You’re not my parent, so I don’t have to listen to you.

See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads, just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there. – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

It’s okay to cut toxic family members out of your life. Blood ain’t thicker than peace of mind.

The only thing we had in common was DNA, which gave us limited mileage conversationally. – Naoise Dolan

If you don’t stop asking me for advice, I’ll have to start charging.

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others. – David W. Earle

So you’re saying I have to like them because they’re family, but they treat me like shit? What planet did you come from again? – Anonymous

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives – Euripedes

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