Support groups for people who are having issues with family?

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Hi,
I was wondering if any of you have gone to any support groups in terms of dealing with dysfunctional family members who keep seeming to hurt us.

The closest thing I've participated in was when someone in the family was overcoming an addiction to prescription opiates and the recovery program offered a "family and spouses" group, but since that person has since been cured of all desire to take pain pills they've earned the right to sit back and judge everyone else.

I continue going to 12-step groups for codependence/anger for my own sanity and CHADD groups since the local aspie groups never seem to meet consistently, plus there's another site I joined that's related to symbolically getting back the love and comfort I missed out on in childhood

For me, it is accepting it that I am dealing with a continuous dysfunctional family who just does not want to seem to change. So I have opted to distance myself from them by not talking to them, and having to put my foot down to say no.

One of those happens to be my sister who has lots of problems of her own and this includes anger. She does not seem to understand why I am distancing myself from her and my parents because someone always ends up being upset. I am usually one of them.

My sister is also turning out to be a sociopath.

I know what you mean. I have distanced myself from my parents because they are both very self-distructive and hurtful. I feel like there is no support for adults in situations like this.

It's a catch 22 situation. on one hand I feel like if I stay close to them I get hurt and that damages my mental health and physical health because I get stressed on the other hand I feel like when I don't spend time with them I worry about them and feel guilty for not looking after them. I don't know how to deal with that.

Here's a formula for family "issues":

1 Aspergers adult + 1 deceased agoraphobic parent + 1 parent and one sibling with narcissism disorders = A family that "dysfunctional" doesn't begin to describe.