Letters to the Editor
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The family you want does exist...
...you're just not related to them.
Find people who love you and respect you and appreciate you, and do the same for them. Hopefully you already have people like this in your life; find a few more if you need to!!
You may be making the same mistake I made with my abusive family: you assume they know you better than you know yourself, and that they must have some rational basis in reality for their judgments. They don't. Their behavior, difficult as it may be to understand, has little or nothing to do with you. You know your worth. Hopefully you have friends who do also. They and you know best.
It took me a long time and a lot of therapy to "get over" my family. It can be done. Good luck to you -- and your disobedient dog, too!!
I hope this helps!