Blood is Thicker than Water, Is it? (Introduction)

Most of my life and probably most of yours you have been told that blood is thicker than water. Well, physically blood (family) is thicker than water but metaphorically speaking this is one of the biggest lies ever told. In my experience, family (blood) has been some of the most toxic people in my life. I have watched the destruction of individual characters destroyed, family accusing other members of the family of hideous actions and habits, children kept from parents, lies told on children, children turning against their parents, physical abuse, mental abuse, truths withheld, husbands stolen, and the list could go on and on.

Now I am not implying these things have happened only in my family, but also in the families of friends, my friends friends, family of family members, so on and so on. You get the picture. Yes, I have been the “victim” of family and witnessed the victimization of multiple family members and friends. I am sure anyone taking the time to read this blog has at some point in their life has been a “victim” of family. After all, we are all only human, walking the same earth, anchored by the same gravitational pull, living different realities, fighting similar battles.

But my focus here is family or should I say who I consider family? Believe me when I say family does not necessarily mean you are my blood. After all, what is blood? According to Wikipedia, blood is “body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.” What does that really have to do with the people responsible for depositing small bits of influence, good or bad, throughout and within your life? Those people that helped you, hurt you, abandoned you, back stabbed you, loved you, hated you…

Over the next few blogs, I will delve deeper into blood is thicker than water, and how this phrase has been taken out of context by family causing a complete breakdown of family structure. By the end of this blog series, I hope to open the eyes and minds of families that have gone through hell and back, and the friends that have been there to help put the pieces back together.

Stay tuned!