Family Dynamics Explorer Pillows

"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.'

"You were always my favorite to manipulate."

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

"I hope we can still be cousins."

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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.'

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

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

'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.'

'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'."

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

Not-quite-empty-enough-nest Syndrome

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

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

"Of course, we love you. Hasn't Maria told you?"

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

"I've had to be both mother and father to them."

"I have two children from a previous sexuality."

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

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

"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!"

'It's amazing what you learn when you decide to spend more time with your family. For example, today I learned my family moved away 7 months ago.'

City 12-step programs...New! Middle child group.