Family Systems Model

This week we studied a few models of explaining family structures. I want to focus my analogy for my family using the Circumplex model. I’ve been really glad to find that my family is generally healthy when it comes to the Circumplex model. In the past I’d worried that we were chaoticly disengaged, in my own words of course. I thought it would be fun to figure out what kind of system my family might resemble.We've been told that families can be represented by mobiles (the baby things that turn over cribs). When you move one part of the mobile, the whole thing moves. You can't move one part in around the circle without moving every other part.

I felt like my family might be more independent than that. "Are we even a system?" I wondered at first. I thought maybe we're more like individual states in the US to make a whole.

Then, as I pondered our roles in the family, I thought of the perfect symbol to represent us. For now. A buffet! Each of us has something unique to offer one another. We need and want different things at different times, and we each represent different things at different times. For example, lately I often feel like I'm the salad bar. Because some people skip it over, especially the vegetables they don't like.Sometimes either of my sisters act like that ooey gooey cheese sauce. It's great stuff! But it doesn't go well with everything. It would be delicious on broccoli. But can you imagine putting liquid cheese on your ice cream?