BUSTED.: The Story of Broken Boundaries, Bad Behavior, and the Receipts to Prove It. When Bad Behavior Becomes a Family Tradition - Couverture souple

McMahon Martin, Kathryn Marie

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ISBN 13 : 9798997675080

Editeur : The Wacky Mom, 2026

Synopsis

Every family has problems.

Some families turn theirs into a group project.

In BUSTED., Kathryn Marie McMahon Martin takes a brutally honest, darkly funny look at what happens when divorce, family loyalty, broken boundaries, motherhood, mental health, and years of dysfunction collide—and somehow everyone is still convinced somebody else is the problem.

What begins as the ending of a marriage becomes something much bigger: an examination of the patterns families inherit, protect, excuse, and pass down. Who gets to set boundaries? Who is expected to keep the peace? When does loyalty become enabling? What happens when children become the audience to adult conflict? And why is the person who finally says, This isn't okay, so often treated like the one causing the problem?

Kathryn doesn't let herself off the hook, either.

With humor, vulnerability, and an impressive collection of receipts, she examines her own trauma responses, mistakes, overexplaining, defensiveness, and attempts to fix things that were never entirely hers to repair.

Because accountability isn't about finding one perfect person and one villain.

Sometimes the whole damn system is busted.

From missing belongings and family conflict to co-parenting, generational patterns, uncomfortable realizations, and the absurdity of trying to rebuild a life while parts of the old one remain unresolved, BUSTED. is ultimately about learning the difference between fixing something and finally putting it down.

And then there are the popsicle sticks.

Broken. Stained. Practically worthless.

But maybe broken doesn't always mean useless.

Sometimes you can't fix what you didn't break.

Sometimes you have to stop trying.

And sometimes you take the busted pieces, glue the little bastards to a canvas, and call it art.

BUSTED. is for anyone who has ever loved a dysfunctional family, questioned what they were taught to tolerate, or realized that breaking a cycle sometimes means admitting you were part of it, too.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Wacky Mom
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798997675080
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 446
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