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Genogram Fused-Hostile Relationship Symbol
The Fused-Hostile relationship symbol is shown as fused parallel lines with a red jagged zigzag and directional arrow running through them. Use it when two people are highly entangled and also locked in recurring hostility. This guide explains how to distinguish fused-hostile from fused, close-hostile, and ordinary hostility.
Fused-Hostile Symbol Example in a Genogram
Fused-Hostile Symbol Example in a Genogram
Priscilla Duval and her mother, Odette Duval, talk multiple times a day, weigh in on every decision the other makes, and can't seem to function without checking in constantly.
That same closeness turns into recurring, high-intensity arguments, both hold on tight and both lash out.
Priscilla and Odette sit in their existing structural position as mother and daughter, and the fused-hostile line is added twice between them, once from Priscilla to Odette and once from Odette to Priscilla, showing the hostility runs both ways underneath the enmeshment.
Fused-Hostile vs. Close-Hostile vs. Fused
- Fused: parallel lines alone. Enmeshment, weak boundaries, mutual over-involvement, no conflict marker.
- Close-Hostile: Close's lines plus the hostile zigzag, directional. Real closeness alongside conflict, individual identities still preserved.
- Fused-Hostile: Fused's lines plus the hostile zigzag, directional. Enmeshment with conflict, boundaries even thinner than close-hostile, the "can't live with them, can't live without them" pattern.
How to Add It in EasyGenogram
Select the relationship line, choose Fused-Hostile, click the person directing the hostility first, then the person it's directed at.
Repeat in the opposite direction if the dynamic is mutual.
Fused-Hostile Symbol Example in a Genogram
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FAQ
What does the fused-hostile symbol look like on a genogram?
The Fused notation's parallel lines with a red jagged zigzag and a directional arrow running through them.
What's an example of a fused-hostile relationship?
A parent and adult child who check in constantly and can't function apart, but whose closeness turns into recurring, high-intensity arguments.
Is the fused-hostile line on a genogram directional?
Yes. The arrow shows who's directing the hostility and who it's aimed at. For a two-way dynamic, add the line twice, once per direction.
What's the difference between fused-hostile and close-hostile genogram symbols?
Close-Hostile preserves separate individual identities alongside the conflict. Fused-Hostile reflects deeper enmeshment, much thinner boundaries between the two people, combined with that same conflict.
What's the difference between fused-hostile and fused genogram symbols?
Fused marks enmeshment on its own, no conflict. Fused-Hostile marks that same enmeshment with recurring, high-intensity conflict layered on top.