Stress is not a foreign issue to families anywhere. As Leo Tolstoy said, "all happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way". Happiness is really a simple thing, but it becomes complicated through life stresses, especially those we experience in the home. I agree with the statement that when the Mother of a family is happy, everyone's happy, but when she's unhappy so is the rest. Growing up it seemed that whenever my Mom was having a bad day, so was everyone else. Every family experiences a crisis from one time to another either large or small. How the family decides to respond to that says a lot about that family's system. In some cases, members of the family will push their loved ones away while others become more attached. Although in almost all cases, after a crisis the family grows a lot closer. Coping with stress is a very difficult subject, and it is important not to cope inaccurately or it could lead to many other problems. Examples of this are become reliant on drugs and alcohol. Which in the end, doesn't help the individual come to terms with their struggles but only postpones it and makes it worse in the end. If we could only trust our family enough to rely on each other during hard times we would be rewarded immensely.
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