How does love operate between Lord and Lady Capulet, Juliet, Nurse, and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare?

The love
between the members of the house of
Capulet is as complex and dysfunctional as most families
today.

Whileis the picture of a devoted wife, her relationship withcan be

interpreted a number of waysas an abusive husband and his meek wife, as two social
climbers who
care less for affection and more for power, or as two people who
do love each other but have no
idea how to raise a child.

Both Lord and Lady Capulet have a complex
relationship with . Lord
Capulet appears to care about Juliet, insisting she is too young to
marry,
and though he appears strict with her after 's death, one can easily interpret this
as
his fear that the civil strife between his family and the Montagues will
claim the life of his
daughter next. His anger, while frightening, is more
likely a sign that he is scared and unsure
of how to handle his daughter's
newfound backbone.

Lady Capulet seems less
fond of her
daughter. Their interactions are stilted and awkward, and one can easily
imagine
that Lady Capulet does not understand her daughter and is only too
happy to hand her over to the
Nurse. In fact, Lady Capulet seems to genuinely
love her nephew Tybalt in a way she does not
love Juliet, implying that
perhaps Lady Capulet was disappointed she could not have given her
husband a
son.

Lord Capulet, on the other hand, does not seem to like
Tybalt
very much. He openly chastises him at the masquerade, and it is
perhaps the chip on his shoulder
about his place in the Capulet family that
drives Tybalt to antagonize .

Though we never directly see
Juliet and Tybalt interact, we know that Juliet loves her
cousin; after she
learns thathas killed him, she is torn between grieving for her cousin and

standing by her husband's side. Ultimately, she takes the side of her
husband.

The most loving relationship in this family is,
oddly enough, between two people who
are not related. Juliet and the Nurse
are closer than anyone; it is the Nurse and no one else to
whom Juliet
confides her love for Romeo and her secret marriage. It is also the Nurse who
urges
Juliet to marry , thinking that this will be the best option for
Juliet.