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Genogram Relationship Lines

Genogram relationship lines (emotional lines) are drawn between two people to show the quality of their relationship: parallel lines for close or fused, a dotted line for distant, a zigzag for conflict, a broken line with bars for a cutoff, and arrows for one-directional patterns such as focus, neglect and abuse.

Fig. 1 — Close, conflict and cutoff lines in one family在编辑器里打开

Closeness

Line	Looks like	Meaning
Close	Two parallel lines	A warm, supportive relationship.
Fused	Three parallel lines	Enmeshed: boundaries between the two are blurred.
Distant	Dotted line	Little emotional contact.

Conflict

Line	Looks like	Meaning
Conflict	Zigzag	Ongoing discord or arguments.
Hostile	Zigzag with a straight line	Open hostility.
Close–hostile	Close lines with a zigzag over them	Close and conflicted at once.
Fused–hostile	Fused lines with a zigzag	Enmeshed and conflicted.
Distant–hostile	Dotted line with a zigzag	Little contact, and hostile when there is.
Cutoff	Line broken by two bars	No contact at all.

Directed lines (with an arrow)

These point from the person doing it to the person it is done to.

Line	Looks like	Meaning
Focused on	Solid arrow	One person is preoccupied with the other.
Neglect	Dashed arrow	One person neglects the other.
Abuse	Dashed zigzag with an arrow	Abuse where the type is not specified.
Physical abuse	Heavy zigzag with an arrow	Physical harm.
Emotional abuse	Light dashed zigzag with an arrow	Emotional or psychological harm.
Sexual abuse	Double zigzag with an arrow	Sexual harm.

Tips

Only draw lines your notes support. Emotional lines are interpretation; say where they come from.
Tell lines apart by pattern, not only color, so they still read when printed in black and white.
Put every line style you used in the key.