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Emotional Relationships

Visualize the 23 emotional relationship types across 4 categories.

Emotional relationships show the quality of bonds between family members, displayed as curved overlay lines. GenogramAI supports 23 emotional relationship types organized into 4 categories.

Positive Relationships (5 Types)

Close

Two parallel blue lines - warm, supportive

Harmony

Solid green line - harmonious bond

Fused

Three parallel red lines - enmeshed

Limerence

Slate line, two circles, arrowhead - obsessive fixation

Friendship

Two parallel green lines

Negative/Tension (8 Types)

Conflict

Two parallel dashed red lines

Hostile

Red zigzag line

Violence

Tight red zigzag

Hate

Three parallel dashed red lines

Distrust

Line with cross marks

Fused-Conflict

Triple line + zigzag

Close/Hostile

Two blue lines + red zigzag

Distant/Hostile

Dashed gray + red zigzag

Distance/Disconnection (4 Types)

Indifferent

Dotted gray line

Distant

Dashed red line

Estranged

Solid red line crossed by two bars - no contact

Never Met

Dotted + X

Abuse/Control (6 Types)

Abuse (Generic)

Arrow line

Abuse (Physical)

Red arrow

Abuse (Emotional)

Red zigzag + outlined arrow

Abuse (Sexual)

Red double line + zigzag + filled arrow

Neglect

Blue dashed line + arrow

Control

Red line + crossed box + arrow

Creating Emotional Overlays

  1. Press E for Emotional tool
  2. Click on one person
  3. Drag to another person
  4. Select the emotional type from the menu

Viewing Emotional Relationships

Emotional overlays are always visible — as soon as a relationship has an emotional type set, its curved line appears above the structural relationships. There is no view mode to enable. To hide an individual line, select that connection and click Hide in the Inspector.