{"id":30903,"date":"2019-12-22T00:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30903"},"modified":"2019-12-22T00:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:17:52","slug":"audio-drama-of-family-of-origin-seems-to-follow-us-for-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30903","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Drama of \u2018family of origin\u2019 seems to follow us for a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was about 14 years old when this photo was taken, so my sisters would have been about 12 and 10. That\u2019s Mary on the left and Rebecca on the right, mugging for the camera with someone else\u2019s sunglasses.<\/p>\n

I clearly don\u2019t want to be in the photo. Mary seems ambivalent and Rebecca is having fun with it. Something about this seems like a good symbol of my childhood. We were all in the same places and going through the same experience for those years \u2014 but we reacted to it in radically different ways.<\/p>\n

Even though it\u2019s been decades, I can\u2019t seem to leave that time in my life completely behind. I spent about 90 minutes this afternoon talking with Rebecca about some issues on her mind. It was surprising how many of today\u2019s issues required one of us to ask, \u201cDo you remember when…\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Even though my sisters and I have gone in very different directions \u2014 and we have almost nothing to do with one another anymore \u2014 we still can\u2019t escape the drama and dysfunction of where we all started.<\/p>\n

Click or tap the \u201cplay\u201d button to listen.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Family-of-origin.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n

Note:<\/strong> The photo below was at my kindergarten graduation when we lived in Atlanta. The photo at the top was taken a couple of years after we moved to Jasper, Ala.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I was about 14 years old when this photo was taken, so my sisters would have been about 12 and 10. That\u2019s Mary on the left and Rebecca on the right, mugging for the camera with someone else\u2019s sunglasses. I clearly don\u2019t want to be in the photo. Mary seems ambivalent and Rebecca is having Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-82r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30903"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30914,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions\/30914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}