Does such a family model determine a person’s relationships, ability to ask for help, accept care, set boundaries? Or perhaps the most important thing is not that there was no father in the family, but how much emotional strength the mother had left after the daily struggle for survival?
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Psychiatrist-psychotherapist Vilius Ogenskas emphasizes that the problem is not the family form itself. “It’s not the empty chair that hurts. It’s the exhausted mother on the other chair that hurts,” he says.
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