how well does your family get on? .

Robsweezie

no family is perfect I understand, my fathers side are fairly okay with no major problems but my mothers side is a flaming cesspit of bitching, resentment and hostility. among my aunts and uncles, there is always one not speaking to the other, mostly down to jealousy and falling outs over money etc. and it has often extended to facebook in the form of blocking and pointed status updates. theres just always something that manages to come between them.

so, how well do you get along with your immediate and extended family? are you proud of your roots?

The Backwards Man

Mis Races Estan Aqui

Honey Monster

They're all nuts, I'm the only sane one.
I won't bore you with the details.

GerB40

Mine are grand. We're like the white version of the Cosby's but with less people and no dirty fecker of an oul lad. Myself and my siblings are all colour blind too so we kinda have a super power in reverse..

Littlekittylou

Robsweezie wrote: »

no family is perfect I understand, my fathers side are fairly okay with no major problems but my mothers side is a flaming cesspit of bitching, resentment and hostility. among my aunts and uncles, there is always one not speaking to the other, mostly down to jealousy and falling outs over money etc. and it has often extended to facebook in the form of blocking and pointed status updates. theres just always something that manages to come between them.

so, how well do you get along with your immediate and extended family? are you proud of your roots?

I won the family lottery.


We love each other. I have a nuts family.
I have soooo many cousins it's great!

No there is none of what you describe above in our family at all. I can't understand it. We are always there for one another. We help each other out and I know if I needed anything I could go to anyone of them.

And they know they could go to me.

On family get together we concentrate on having fun! They are really funny no one makes me laugh as much!

I am very loved and cherished. :-) That is what my idea of what family is.

Venus In Furs

Robsweezie wrote: »

my fathers side are fairly okay with no major problems but my mothers side is a flaming cesspit of bitching, resentment and hostility.

Similar here. Dad's side - extremely normal and easygoing and issue-free; great bunch.
I don't know most people on my mother's side to be honest as they're mostly estranged. A small few cousins on my mother's side who I'm in touch with all right though, and they're great folks. Pity about the rest.

Duff

Can't bate the family royal rumble on Christmas Day.

braddun

like a house on fire

Robsweezie

Robsweezie wrote: »

no family is perfect I understand, my fathers side are fairly okay with no major problems but my mothers side is a flaming cesspit of bitching, resentment and hostility. among my aunts and uncles, there is always one not speaking to the other, mostly down to jealousy and falling outs over money etc. and it has often extended to facebook in the form of blocking and pointed status updates. theres just always something that manages to come between them.

My family are bat shít crazy on both sides. My fathers family is tiny. It was his late self, his sister and his brother. The sister is a spinster and the brother is married with two (adult) kids. They're nuts in their own way. Love em!

I honestly don't have the time or the energy to talk about my mothers side. Billions of them. All nuts, all weird but all fantastic people.

As for myself and my siblings, I'd like to think we're a mixture of the above. Don't know if thats good or bad. We're a really close family which I love. Like all families, we have our ups and downs.

Robsweezie wrote: »

so, how well do you get along with your immediate and extended family? are you proud of your roots?

Very very well. Have cousins that I'd count as siblings. Wouldn't trade my family for the world.

Lovely Bloke

My dad is one of 12 siblings, and of them there are 2 "sides", one of 7, one of 5, with a kind of age split. My dad is in the younger group and there is fairly bad animosity between the two groups, both his parents are dead, so both groups have no reason to communicate, and they don't. I'd still be friendly with some of my cousins from the "other side" though, my Dad's fights are not mine.

My mother is one of 6, and again, there is a split. Two of her sisters are batshít nuts, and there's one of her brothers who kind of talks to both sides, and then the group of three my mam is in. Again, a son of one of the mental sisters was my best man, so definitely no beef with my cousins at all.

I've one brother and one sister, we get on quite well. I'd probably be friendly with my brother even if we weren't related, and my sister is just a bit too young to ever have been my friend, but we do get on pretty well.

Meh, families are weird.

Green Giant

Couldn't ask for a better immediate family - OK I have just the one brother and he's older than me, but I'm so lucky to live in a home where disagreements are rarer than snow in June. And we're not a Waltons-type hug-all-the-time family either, there's simply a strong connect between all of us that I pray will never be broken.

Fortunate enough, too, with the extended family, although I suppose with the amount of cousins I have, I'm bound to get on with some better than others. I don't dislike any of them, even though there may be one or two who I wouldn't be too bothered about talking to - not because of badness, just because we've nothing in common apart from family ties

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sorry OP but our family gets on great. Both my parents families became great friends. My in-laws and my own family never have a cross word and really enjoy each others company. Likewise my family and those my kids married in to get on great.
From my long experience, this is quite normal.

caustic 1

Just about tolerate each other.

valoren

I have been pretty much alienated from my younger brother because of his attention seeking, drama queen wife. He's likeable but extremely gullible. She definitely wears the trousers there and it's painful to see.

It's reached the point with her web of lies that I am 100% certain that if they have a family, then they will be children that I won't know. It's amazing how one insecure and immature person can destroy her husband's family dynamic.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

My dad's side hate each other after some nasty goings on at my grandfather's funeral. Its mostly my dad's fault to be fair but he's way too stubborn to admit that so there is essentially no communication with that side of the family. My mam's side are grand, all but one of them live in England though so we rarely see them. Both my mother's parents are passed on which is a shame. Could never meet two nicer people. O and my sister's grand too I suppose.

pragmatic1

Get on with my mother and brother. Also cousins on my fathers side. I love my father and sister, but don't enjoy their company. Too many people with big egos in my family. Can't stand arrogance.