The truly happy family
The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy said it with the first line of his novel "Anna Karenina": "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Actually, he said it in Russian — this is just the most common translation — and of course he was exactly wrong. Following a very few patterns, unhappy families seem to chart almost identical downward spirals into misery or dissolution.
Happy families, however, seem to find the resources to overcome obstacles, conflicts, griefs and the natural cycles of life.
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