Do you get on with your family?

[notabikeranym...]

Only siblings & parents.

Everyone else can fuck right off.

[ocatoro]

[growler]

I haven't had any contact with my side for about 30 years but my wife's family are fantastic so who needs any one else
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[pepperami]

I Don't have any issues with any of my family, they never speak to me
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[The999Kid]

i get on well with my parents and siblings, have a half decent relationship with my godparents - no-one else makes an effort with me so why should i return the favour. relationships are a 2 way street and ive been stood half way down for a long while before i walked back to my end.

then again my parents and maternal grand mother have been locked in a battle with the rest of the maternal side aunts and uncles for donkeys years.... so hardly surpising!
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[Sun Wukong]

I am slowly training them to be less odious.

I have to spend a week with my parents this week coming. Can't wait :/
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"Hard times lead to hard people. Hard people lead to good times. Good times lead to weak people. Weak people lead to hard times." Smegballs
"Oh and STE balloons would be one of the nicer things we would receive at the office, the amount of dog turd in jiffy bags is not funny." Jsmith86

[nowhere.elysium]

Only family I have left on my side is my sister and parents. Never had a large extended family growing up - it'd be more accurate to refer to it as a truncated family, in complete honesty. Was something of a culture shock when I found out that my wife's extended family numbers in the region of ~200 at last count.

I get on fine with my parents and sister, and my wife's immediate family are generally pretty sound - there's a couple of exceptions, but meh. Can't like everyone.
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[hellkat]

Gerry's mum is very cool.
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[TheSmiler]

Only two members and one died 10 years ago on the 25th November at 4am.
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[Sun Wukong]

I recommend S01E05 of Bojack Horseman, as this website on narcissism rightly applauds (here), for actually daring to show a family that is a negative impact.

My slight thread hijack could be:

Why do so many couples, married or longterm, seem to exist in a stable state of disdain, abuse or nastiness? See it so often when staying with people, I'd say 50% seem to be praying the other either dies (so they can escape), would avoid them completely or would come summit to crap 24/7.

What life is that?
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"Hard times lead to hard people. Hard people lead to good times. Good times lead to weak people. Weak people lead to hard times." Smegballs
"Oh and STE balloons would be one of the nicer things we would receive at the office, the amount of dog turd in jiffy bags is not funny." Jsmith86

[hellkat]

I think the driving factor is:

1. They don't want to give up the comfort they have managed to acquire; or

2, What if they end up really skint and have to live in *gasp* social housing?

Many people are terrified of ending up losing "everything they own", even if they claim not to be materialistic. The thought of having NOTHING (even if you still have a good job) is terrifying.

But once you've been there ... it's not so bad. You soon accumulate things, even if it is only one plastic bag at a time

When I lost literally everything, I started again with a couple of books and an incense burner. Twelve years later, I'm back to my original state of disarray.

I reckon a lot of people get too comfortable, and then just don't want that lifestyle to change, so they just put up with [whoever] and find other ways of entertaining themselves.
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[Tracer1234]

[hellkat]

Yeah I suppose there's that, too.

I do get quite lonely even in a loving relationship such as I have, but that's cos I've distanced people to "protect" myself from the risk of emotional damage, and despite many offers of going-out, meeting-up, etc, I have mostly ignored them at my own peril, and ended up being Jenny No-Mates, whereas my fella has too much work/not enough time, and a million people wanting to be his friend (or kill him, one or the other, never sure which is going on at any one point in time ) most of which keeps him out of the house for 80% of our life together.

So I am learning, somewhat late in life, to accept an extended hand of friendship, so I don't become the mad cat lady of Old London Town.
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[thx1138]

[oldpink]

Mother died years ago loved her to bits
Dad pissed off when I was 14 only started speaking to him in the last 3 years or so (in 53 now)
but he is why I'm into bikes he always had bikes and I helped work on them

Brother moved away when he was 16, off / on spoke up till 3 years ago then we fell out and havn't spoken since

sister stays 500 yards from me until recently I avoided her as we are chalk & cheese
her and my Brother havn't spoken since my mun died

brother and dad did speak for a bit but didn't last long
Sister doesn't talk to dad at all and had had no contact since he buggered off

so pretty disjointed family

you can choose your friends but not your family
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Theory & hazard 24-may 2016, CBT 8th June 2016, MOD 1 2nd Aug 2016 Mod 2 2nd-Nov 2016 - Current bike CBR 600 RR

[Rob W]

I don't see or speak to a single member of my family, and haven't done for the last 5 years or so.
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[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

Not spoken to my mother, brother or sisters since my grandmother died in '09, and I found out the whore had been emptying her bank account for a couple of years previously, whilst she was suffering from cancer.
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[Sun Wukong]

If I consent to being talked to like a twat, or talked at for hours about golf/cats/how awesome my father thinks he is, then yes. Really well.

Enough trying for now It's not me, it's you.
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"Hard times lead to hard people. Hard people lead to good times. Good times lead to weak people. Weak people lead to hard times." Smegballs
"Oh and STE balloons would be one of the nicer things we would receive at the office, the amount of dog turd in jiffy bags is not funny." Jsmith86

[hellkat]

[grr666]

[Sun Wukong]

[hellkat]

My mother

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[Nobby the Bastard]