A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

Yeah, yeah.

What you holding on to,

what you holding on to,

but just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. And today we are diving into siblings,

the unique experiences of growing up in the same dysfunctional household. The effect it has on them, the impact it

has on them in adulthood. So on Instagram today I put up a poll and I asked, do you and your siblings have a different perception of your

dysfunctional upbringing? And 85% of y'all said yes. Now one thing that has been so cool to hear is that this podcast is having a positive impact

amongst siblings, that you and your siblings are listening to the podcast together and that

it is served as a catalyst to have some

some meaningful and healing conversations about the topics discussed.

Now as y'all know I am an only child and I think I've said before that the disease of alcoholism is the closest thing that I have to a sibling and I've tried to discuss it with him some and he's not interested. I'm sure that some of y'all have had that experience as well when you've tried to share the podcast with your siblings.

So I found myself three sisters who have been listening to the pod who have been talking about

the pod three sisters from North Dakota with fabulous North Dakota accents get

pumped for that who are going to share about their own experience of growing

up in the same family and how this has impacted their lives as adults. This is a

great conversation. Now I've been thinking some about my experience of being an adult child and the role that that played both good and bad.

So I meant to say they're my experience of being an only child, not an adult child, but by the time I

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