A family system is a self-regulating, interdependent network of feedback loops guided by members' rules; the behavior of each person affects and is affected by the behavior of another. This system can be found on page 170 and in chapter 13 of our book. The idea is that an entire family affects one person simply through the family's interactions with each other and that single individual.
This is meaningful to me because I feel my brother is in a similar situation to the guy Mike in the example in this chapter. Where he uses simply because his family's interactions really bother him, and the family isn't doing a good job at all working with the young man to help his drug abuse. I need to remember that everything I do and say affects how my brother feels and what he feels like doing.
~Tornn
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I think the family system can relate to more than just actual families. Coworkers or boyfriends and girlfriends also are connected to each other. I also need to remember more often that all the things I do or say has an affect on all the people who are connected with me.
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