You may be right: the house might have negative energy. It does exist and spread, unfortunately.
Meet outside the house, at the restaurant, park, library, wherever and see if anything changes.
In the while I would start looking for some counsellor to improve communication in your family.
You are the parent, so you must take responsibility on how to sort that out.

I like Hannabee advice, the problem is that if you have forgotten how to talk without criticizing one another, it seems a bit difficult that it could really work