Yes — absolutely, and it's actually more common than people expect. Family dysfunction and business success aren't mutually exclusive; plenty of thriving family businesses run on unresolved tension, rivalry, or unhealthy patterns underneath. A few reasons why this happens…

Insecurities will stay beneath the surface until the owner experiences sustained stress. Under such stress, depending on how the owner coped with stress as a child and how the owner learned to manage stress by watching adults around him while growing up, the owner’s insecurities may manifest in a variety of ways.

In most family owned businesses – whether Christian or not – there is usually an enmeshment of roles for family members who work in the business. They confuse the four roles that anyone can play in a corporation:

Family business is no laughing matter. When couples work together and experience a deterioration in their marriage, who do they turn to? Nearly all therapists and psychologists don’t know what to do with the business aspect of the client’s clinical picture. But at OnPath, this is different. We have deep experience in clinical psychology as well as business ownership and leadership. You can trust us to work seamlessly across both domains to achieve optimal healing for yourself, your marriage, and your business.