Personal Narrative: My Dysfunctional Family

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The thoughts that I have about this situation is that i think this is a messy situation that needs to be handled the right way without there being any conflict. I have a lot on my plate right now with college and my dysfunctional family and I honestly feel like avoiding situation without even talking to my mother, brother, and nephew Devdas. I feel that if I could collaborate with them, then maybe the situation will finally be solved and the family should be happy again. My attributions about my mother are that she is a good parent but I feel like she can be a control freak sometimes and a person that likes to have conflict with someone. For example, if I continue to support my nephew Devdas, then she and my father will rethink their financial support for my education. My attributions about Devdas are that deep down inside I know that he’s a good kid because at one point we were really close. Now that he’s in his teenage years, I feel like he needs to show some respect to not only me but my mother as well. Devdas also needs to change his attitude because having a bad attitude won’t get you far in life. The attributions about my mother and nephew …show more content…
In order for us to get the bottom of this problem, we will have to be able to compromise with each other. If we don’t come to any solution of how were going to handle this, then things are going to continue to be the way they are now. In order for me to change I will have to stand up to my mother and let her know that she needs to stop dominating every situation and realize that I’m an adult now. What I would say to my nephew Devdas is that he needs to learn how to respect people and make him understand that he’s still a child not an adult. For my mother and Devdas to hash out their issues, they both will need to sit down and have calm situation and talk about what went wrong and how should they fix

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