Consider the core tension: . Every human being wants two contradictory things from their family: to be unconditionally accepted for who they are, and to be left alone to become who they want to be. Drama erupts when those two desires collide. A mother who smothers with "love" is just as destructive as a father who abandons with indifference.
The appeal of complex family drama is catharsis. Most of us live in families where the conflict is low-grade and chronic—the silent treatment, the political argument that goes nowhere, the resentment about who visits Mom more often. We do not get a final, screaming resolution. We get a thousand tiny cuts. teen incest magazine vol1 no1 work