Family Dynamics Explorer Mugs

"I do support your right to free speech - I just don't support your tone."

"We've changed our minds. We do want to be a burden to you."

"Thanks to separations, divorces and remarriages, I've got 20 grandparents."

"When you say you want to speak to my parents, do you mean my mommy and her new husband, or my daddy and his new wife or my mommy and daddy?"

'I think my parents expected me to move out ages ago.'

'Someday, son, this will all be your sister's.'

"You were always my favorite to manipulate."

'I'm not so sure I'm a problem child. Maybe you're a problem parent.'

"The thing is, I've grown and you haven't."

"I hope we can still be cousins."

"My Dad has a way of making a long story even longer."

'Whenever I get a good test grade I show it to my mother. Whenever I get a bad test grade, I show it to my grandma.'

'Don't wait up. I'm going out on field research for about three years!'

'I know it's been hard to be both a father and mother to me, but now that I'm grown, Mom, how about being just a mother again.'

(I can't ever forgive my parents.) (I, on the other hand, am profoundly grateful to them.)

'It's not you I have a problem with, Felton ? it's your mother.'

'I'm not arguing - you're arguing.'

"Whilst I can sympathize, madam. . . being quarantined with your family members is not what we categorize as a 'Hostage Situation'."

'I've got a new app that sorts out potentially stressful text messages.'

"I internalize my mother's needs Monday through Friday and my father's needs most weekends."

"Since my mother was rarely home, I guess I blame my nanny."

'I think I'm getting the hang of this algebra; your relationship with Dad, for example, would be a + b = 0.'

'Oh, boy - stereo!'

"Of course your daddy loves you. He's on Prozac - he loves everybody."

'I'm really proud of you son. Even though you haven't done anything.'

Notice on door reads - 'Granny's house - An area of Zero Tollerance'.

"Mom, Dad, this is Kevin, our new ombudsman."

"Thanks in advance for saving my life over his, if you ever have to choose"

"Look, we might have our little tiffs, but I think we should stay together for the sake of the children."

"Just you wait 'till your father comes home!"

"You can probably tell we're a close knit family..."

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"Yes mum, metaphorically speaking, you're still in the driving seat."

Not-quite-empty-enough-nest Syndrome

"Your room is exactly how you left it before you went to college, except of course, for our boarder, Mr. Grunze."