Family - Let's adapt to reflect our realities
"You come from a broken family." That's a line I am so accustomed to hearing over 2 decades that I really started believing it in my subconscious mind. It ate away at me every time - no matter where, when or who said it. The stigma around a single-parent household has been so traumatizing that as an adult I struggle to deal with social and relationship anxiety. Very recently I was prompted to think over why this affected me so much, and why I felt compelled to believe that I hail from a 'broken family'. Were you one of those people who grew up believing that you knew the mathematical formula for what the society calls a 'family'? Did your formula look like: Family = Husband + Wife + kid(s) If the answer is yes, I wouldn't be surprised because honestly that's the image society put in our heads ever since we were little kids. But it is time that we took a pause, looked around and asked - Is this really what a family means? If we were to look around