Dear Peaceatlast:

“Is ‘family togetherness’ an illusion..?” you asked. It is any child’s most intense need, this family togetherness. The child will do anything for togetherness, bend herself out of cognitive shape any which way so to have a feeling of some ‘family togetherness’. In reality, for very many people, the bending out of shape we do as children makes for a dysfunctional lives.

Yes, it is very often an illusion, I say.

anita