Robin Fivush

And now we are here and we're still together.

That's a characterization because all family sagas are a little bit of all of those.

But the problem with an ascending everything's great all the time is it's not.

And life happens.

And if that's your model, when something bad happens, you have no resources.

You have no, well, I know Grandpa Joe went through something like this and was okay.

You have nothing to rely on.

So you just have no coping skills.

Descending, of course, is this kind of spiraling down into rumination.

So the oscillating story is one where you have a sense of life has its ups and downs, but we are a strong, persevering family.

We will overcome.

We will get through this.

Transgression stories are stories that really challenge our sense of who we are.

We did something that we're ashamed of, not proud of, we feel guilty about.

We hurt somebody or did something wrong.

And we all do it.

I mean, hopefully in our lives, small transgressions.

We lie.

We cheat.

Maybe we do a little bit of stealing or we betray a trust.