Family

[Lightkeeper]

I started this thread once before. I saw in the RF family thread that some people made references to their own family. Tell us about your family. I know I have been disappointed in a few members of my family. There is a lot of competition and little love. I expect family to be supportive. How about you?

 

[Ceridwen018]

Family should be supportive, and they should look out for each other first and foremost.

 

[Jaymes]

My family's more of a group of related people living together than an actual family.

 

[Rex]

My family is very small. Mom, Dad, Sister, Girlfriend.

 

[No*s]

I started this thread once before. I saw in the RF family thread that some people made references to their own family. Tell us about your family. I know I have been disappointed in a few members of my family. There is a lot of competition and little love.

I have a living Mother, three siblings, a man my Mother married (after I had gone to college, so he can't function as my "Dad" in any capacity), and a deceased Father for my immediate family. When my Father died, we fled his side of the family, and I have a very supportive family on her side and with my immediate family.

Sometimes, though, people would think we hated each other as we joke bicker a lot .

I expect family to be supportive. How about you?

Yes, it should. Family is one of our single-most important institutions.

 

[fromthe heart]

I started this thread once before. I saw in the RF family thread that some people made references to their own family. Tell us about your family. I know I have been disappointed in a few members of my family. There is a lot of competition and little love. I expect family to be supportive. How about you?

My in house family consists of My husband,myself,my daughter and son-in-law,and 3 of my grandchildren. In this I find support and give support. Extended family outside this household...DISASTEROUS....and as non-supported as they get...all out for each's own so to speak...and if you have anything they wish they had there's something wrong with it. It all just makes me think...cat claws,stabbing daggers, he said she said, and so on...I'm blessed though to have escaped being the way they are because I was rasied by my grandparents...they taught me love,respect,tenderness,gentleness,and to care about what comes out of your mouth at others. That some of the worse pain could be inflicted by words. I could write a book on disfunctional families.

 

[Lightkeeper]

How about including cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. They all have an impact on your family. What about inlaws? What about the people married to your cousins? In some cases the people married to my cousins are nicer than the cousins.

 

[QTpi]

I am very fortunate to have an awesome family. At home it's just me and my wonderful husband pah :jiggy:. I have two terrific daughters and son-in-laws. My mother (Grams here at RF) is the best mother anyone could ever have. She is supportive and loving and lots of fun to be with. I have three sisters and one brother along with their families. I enjoy spending time with each of them. They all live in different parts of the country so I don't see them as often as I would like.

 

[rivet]

Family members shouldn't dis other family members on a public Internet forum.

 

[Lightkeeper]

It is never wrong to talk about your feelings and experiences. Especially when we are using forum names. This is anonymous. I haven't noticed anyone using any real names here or mentioning any real names.

 

[Linus]

My family is typical. Dad, Mom, sister, brother, then me, the baby. My brother is kinda the black sheep of the family and sort of fell away from the faith for a few years, then he moved away. So I haven't been as close to him as I would like to over the years. But he has been doing a lot better spiritually and has just moved back with the rest of the family and we are much closer now.

 

[Majikthise]

It's me ,my wife ,daughter 8 ,and son 3.Very noisy but worth it.My family is my reason to be.I also have lot's of relative's.Many friends who are just as important as family.And now I have everyone here.I am one lucky ba$*@rd!!:jiggy:

 

[No*s]

Family members shouldn't dis other family members on a public Internet forum.

I don't agree fully with the sentiment...but it most certainly is a very good point.

 

[Feathers in Hair]

My family is rather small. Just my mom and I live in the apartment (I try to bring in the income, and she helps keep me on track), and my sister lives a few miles away. She's currently a RA for a local private college, and will be moving back with us when she graduates at the end of spring. (Kind of nervous about that. She has very different house-keeping ideas than my mom and I.) My dad and stepmom (they just got married last year, and I feel more of a connection to my stepmom than I do to my father) live in Michigan, along with pretty much all the rest of my family. (Grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins, oh my!) My father-by-choice (the one standing next to me in my user-photo) lives in Texas, so I don't get to see him nearly as much as I like.

 

[rivet]

It is never wrong to talk about your feelings and experiences. Especially when we are using forum names. This is anonymous. I haven't noticed anyone using any real names here or mentioning any real names.

True, I was just speaking in general. It's just my personal policy.

I know it's anonymous in a sense. But, think about it if the shoe was on the other foot - and a family member was discussing you on another forum (even though your name wasn't spelled out). And you discovered it.

 

[huajiro]

Sorry Lightkeeper.....I didn't mean to copy your thread....mine isnt exact, but very similar.

 

[SoulTYPE]

I had a crush on one of my cousins.

Oh and my family, relatives, they make me possess an inferiority complex.

 

[SoulTYPE]

So does Netdoc though lol.