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Do you get on well with your family?

  • 16-09-2011 10:45PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭


    I've just come to the realisation that I dont enjoy the company of most of my family. We're just not compatable as people. I'd do anything for them but **** me they're like aliens. So are the rest of you close with your family.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Get a game of "name the ads" going.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭nicechick!


    hmmm more like love/hate type relationship but that said I love them!! faults & all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Love my mother, love my sister, my dads is a knob but id still defend him if someone criticised him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    Haven't seen mine in over 15 years. Couldn't care less.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ms. Pingui


    I love all my family! Don't think I can remember the last time that everyone was getting along with everyone else though! :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    Ha, good time this thread came up in...


    Family - say Family ma, da, etc... I never had a real family as me da died when I was a kid and mother was not 100% capable of looking after me. I used to be bounced back and forth and been raised on the street among the scum. Sure that wasn't a bad thing as I can now look after myself well.

    My OH and my son who's now 12.... I think even tho we fight sometimes they are all I have and they are most precious thing in my life I wouldn't hesitate to kill for. I know I've fooked up many times, so did she but looking at all that I think I get on well with people I love, I dont give a damn whether you call them family or whatever.. I have 2 people I love and thats enough for me, couldn't care bout all the aunties, etc. They're no use and only looking for money.


    Excuse me, I have a bit of Captain in me :rolleyes: BUt I'm honest at least :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    EGAR wrote: »
    Haven't seen mine in over 15 years. Couldn't care less.

    Dont worry you're mother is grand,she says hello by the way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Families are easy to love but can be hard to like


    But I acutally really like mine, as I have matured, which showed me that, in my case anyway, I was only a moody little wanker if I had problems with them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Ms. Pingui wrote: »
    I love all my family! Don't think I can remember the last time that everyone was getting along with everyone else though! :(
    I love mine too, they're just not people that I enjoy spending time with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    Dont worry you're mother is grand,she says hello by the way.

    Haha, if you got her you can keep her. Other than that: Meh.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 34,982 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    When I met my wife about 10 years ago, I mentioned that my family were a bit 'all over the place'. Every family is was her response. 10 yrs later - she agrees that I have a fúcked up family.
    Families - the great conundrum - some fight all the time, some don't fight at all - but most will come together for grief or sickness - no explaining family.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    "you can pick your friends, but you're stuck with your family". Get on well enough with mine mostly, but they all have their cnutish moments.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    Just as an addition to my previous post: if someone hurted my family in any way I wouldn't give up until I blew their head off. Honestly I couldn't care about the Guards, jail, etc. - you ruin my house and family - you are a dead man, dead fukin man in the middle of O'Connell Street if it has to be that way. Nothing would stop me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭blackalicious


    wolf moon wrote: »
    Just as an addition to my previous post: if someone hurted my family in any way I wouldn't give up until I blew their head off. Honestly I couldn't care about the Guards, jail, etc. - you ruin my house and family - you are a dead man, dead fukin man in the middle of O'Connell Street if it has to be that way. Nothing would stop me.

    easy on the captain there cowboy :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    wolf moon wrote: »
    Just as an addition to my previous post: if someone hurted my family in any way I wouldn't give up until I blew their head off. Honestly I couldn't care about the Guards, jail, etc. - you ruin my house and family - you are a dead man, dead fukin man in the middle of O'Connell Street if it has to be that way. Nothing would stop me.
    stop beating around the bush, whats your point? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    easy on the captain there cowboy :)
    I'm fully relaxed chief :)


    /reloads Glock 17 :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    wolf moon wrote: »
    I'm fully relaxed chief :)


    /reloads Glock 17 :)
    I'd feckin hate to meet you when you were wound up so!:D Ya big sausage!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    wolf moon wrote: »
    Just as an addition to my previous post: if someone hurted my family in any way I wouldn't give up until I blew their head off. Honestly I couldn't care about the Guards, jail, etc. - you ruin my house and family - you are a dead man, dead fukin man in the middle of O'Connell Street if it has to be that way. Nothing would stop me.

    do you wear a shell suit?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    wolf moon wrote: »
    Just as an addition to my previous post: if someone hurted my family in any way I wouldn't give up until I blew their head off. Honestly I couldn't care about the Guards, jail, etc. - you ruin my house and family - you are a dead man, dead fukin man in the middle of O'Connell Street if it has to be that way. Nothing would stop me.
    It's nice that your loyalty to your family is more important than any small matters like right, wrong, legality and consequences.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    Solnskaya wrote: »
    I'd feckin hate to meet you when you were wound up so!:D Ya big sausage!
    I'm a lovely guy. Now, lets have more drink yaay! :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,140 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    So are the rest of you close with your family.
    Is that a question. Ever heard of question marks. They are used to close off questions? Don't you find this painful to read. :p

    To answer the question: there's a difference between biological relatives and "family". I have some of the former, but they aren't my friends and ceased to be "family" many years ago. Sharing genes with you does not give someone a right to be a dick or dickette to you. :rolleyes:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    bnt wrote: »
    Is that a question. Ever heard of question marks. They are used to close off questions? Don't you find this painful to read.

    Really? You need question marks to identify a question? What happens when someone is conversing with you? Do they use sign language to signify that they're asking you a question?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Really? You need question marks to identify a question? What happens when someone is conversing with you? Do they use sign language to signify that they're asking you a question?
    are you saying, or asking.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭ahyeahok


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    I've just come to the realisation that I dont enjoy the company of most of my family. We're just not compatable as people. I'd do anything for them but **** me they're like aliens. So are the rest of you close with your family.

    Ask Richard and Kirsty Finlayson


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Tony10


    I like my family.i suppose when it comes down to it, i love them.But sometimes they can p*ss me off. Close?depends on what you count as close.I don't tell them all the things i tell some of my friends.Then, i don't share some of the things my family know about with my friends either. But i cant say i love my friends the same way.There is this one girl though that i'd love to f....

    *Tony10 will be right back after this toilet break* ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I'm lucky to have a great relationship with them all. Family is very important to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭jackie1974


    I believe the old adage blood is thicker than water, my family has went through a lot of **** but I wouldnt exchange them for the world


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,864 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    I'm 30 and still get a bit angsty with my parents. :o

    Our family aren't particularly close but since my sisters recently had babies it has really brought us closer again which is nice but also serves as a reminder as to why we aren't close.

    About an hour in the company of my family is all I can muster before I make my excuses and leave.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭u_c_thesecond


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    I've just come to the realisation that I dont enjoy the company of most of my family. We're just not compatable as people. I'd do anything for them but **** me they're like aliens. So are the rest of you close with your family.

    ah me and the clan get on ok- my dad and stepmam and i get on very well

    only really close to one of my family and thats my older sister, we get on brill we are best friends, when mam died its like she gave us a bond as we are very close and no one else in the family has it

    the rest we all get on 1 way or another- we all have rows over stupid crap but sure they are my family and i have to love em :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭jackie1974


    wolf moon wrote: »
    Ha, good time this thread came up in...
    Family - say Family ma, da, etc... I never had a real family as me da died when I was a kid and mother was not 100% capable of looking after me. I used to be bounced back and forth and been raised on the street among the scum. Sure that wasn't a bad thing as I can now look after myself well.
    My OH and my son who's now 12.... I think even tho we fight sometimes they are all I have and they are most precious thing in my life I wouldn't hesitate to kill for. I know I've fooked up many times, so did she but looking at all that I think I get on well with people I love, I dont give a damn whether you call them family or whatever.. I have 2 people I love and thats enough for me, couldn't care bout all the aunties, etc. They're no use and only looking for money.
    Excuse me, I have a bit of Captain in me :rolleyes: BUt I'm honest at least :)


    Captain morgan aside, I get what your saying, throw your arms around your girl and baby, invest your time and emotions in them not your past. Im sorry you had it hard it can make you or break you, its really up to you.


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