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The paper focuses on family changes and how they affect interpersonal relations and produce transformations in the fantasied events that characterize the psychic life of an individual, family and couple. The new configurations, which are currently often referred to as “new families”, present different functions, both as regards the parents and the children. In couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy, one is confronted more and more with situations of second unions. In the new families, the two partners bring with them the specific trials from the previous union. As clinicians, we question ourselves about how, in these new relational constellations, bonds are broken and created again. Clinical material sheds light on these issues.