I am curious about how many of you are close to your families. I have spent the past 5 days with my siblings and their children sharing a house. My children and grandkids are here as well. I love my them all and miss them terribly. My brother lives in Japan and my sister in Scotland. We were able to see a lot of our extended family. Unfortunately, they are not as happy with each other as we are. It made me sad. Family, or the people whom you make your family is what makes life interesting. All that being said, my family is crazy, in the best if ways for the most part.
Consider yourself truly lucky and blessed you never had abusive and toxic immediate family members.... the only fam member I can be close with is my sister, everyone else triggers me because they are emotionally/psychologically abusive/toxic. And nobody should be forced to endure time with people that destroy you or break you down, just because you share some biology.... you would not put up with such crap from strangers, why would you from family. Just trying to help you understand your extended family a bit better and why they may be the way they are.
That's true. Lots of back story with some of my extended family. I feel badly for them. Very hard to deal with the baggage.
Not close to my family at all I feel that many of them don't make an effort to be in my life so I don't go out of my way,many of us drifted apart when alot us became adults...
I'm close to my immediate family -- my father, my sister, and my nieces and nephews, and also a cousin on my mother's side of the family. Her sister and my aunt I don't see as often, but we stay in touch, along with a few second cousins. I have no relationship anymore with my father's side of the family; his sister and their two daughters have become cold and arrogant people who only think of themselves and we've lost touch. We were close when we were kids, but they've decided to wall themselves off. Their loss.
I don't have any blood relatives except for baby J... She's the first building block of my family... I'll be having many more children in the future.. Frankie's family is nice to have too...
i have a lot of distant family but my immediate family is dead, except for my sister, with whom i am estranged (nothing to do with religion, as it happens). without facebook i probably wouldn't even know i have family. i am facebook-closer to some than to others. there is a whole branch in south america about whom i know virtually nothing. anyway, i do not live in the same part of the usa as the ones i do know.
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after forgetting to tell me when my mums funeral was they don't exist too me
I'm kind of close with my family, which over the years, has become friendlier. It think we are mellowing with age. Family is now cousins and their kids and grandkids. We get together periodically, and some of them came from afar to visit last year, bringing grown-up kids or little kids whom we hadn't met before. There are others of all ages whom we haven't yet met. Getting in touch was pretty interesting with the stories told. I got to know them a lot better than back when we were growing up.