Despite the fact that, as a society, we are becoming more aware of emotions, we still tend to avoid the uncomfortable ones, which can be harmful to the well-being of both individuals and society as a whole. Emotions have a significant impact on the quality of our lives, so it is important to learn how to regulate them effectively, and the family plays a key role in this. I discovered how significant this role is by conducing in-depth semi-structured interviews with eight participants. The conversations were guided by four research tasks related to their current ability to regulate emotions, the context of their upbringing and that of their parents, the ways in which the family supported or hindered the development of their emotion regulation skills, and the impact of their ability to regulate emotions on the quality of their lives. The aim of this paper is to hear the different stories of the participants in order to define certain family factors that supported or hindered the development of their emotion regulation skills.