Family Matters?

[Jacob]

Obviously the relationships will vary with the individuals, but in aggregate how do you feel about your family?

[celedhring]

My family is extremely dysfunctional yet at the same time very close-knit. Which either makes for a great sitcom or a lot of misery. Or both.

[Josquius]

Kept on the other side of the world they're OK. Back home they're overly close.

[mongers]

Kept on the other side of the world they're OK. Back home they're overly close.

When you come back to Blighty, how will you afford to sent them to New Zealand ?

[CountDeMoney]

My family is extremely dysfunctional yet at the same time very close-knit. Which either makes for a great sitcom or a lot of misery. Or both.

This.

I love my family and I can't wait to get away from them as quickly as possible.

[ulmont]

Obviously the relationships will vary with the individuals, but in aggregate how do you feel about your family?

Well, the answers are different for the sides of the family.  My father's side gets the "good in small doses" response; my mother's side gets the "fuck these guys" response.

[Razgovory]

I really don't see them much.

[Capetan Mihali]

My family is extremely dysfunctional yet at the same time very close-knit. Which either makes for a great sitcom or a lot of misery. Or both.

Me too.  Mainly within my immediate family, though.  Once you get into uncles/aunts/cousins, it's more of a spread between totally estranged at the moment, pleasant from a distance, and quite close despite craziness/backbiting/etc.

[Capetan Mihali]

And now to Sly Stone on the Hammond B3 with the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQpYz1ztx8

[Darth Wagtaros]

Didn't really care for it. But Urkel did have his moments. I always wonder if the father was the same character in Die Hard.

[Scipio]

Close to my family, except my sister. Whom, I would mourn, if she died in a fire.

[Ideologue]

Didn't really care for it. But Urkel did have his moments. I always wonder if the father was the same character in Die Hard.

I wanted to know what happened to the other daughter.  Leukemia?  Car accident?  Fire?  Hole in the ground?  WHY WON'T THEY SPEAK THEIR PAIN?

[Monoriu]

Parents: dysfunctional. 

In-laws: reasonably ok.  We meet once every month or so.  For some weird reason they seem quite fond of me from the start, even though I honestly didn't do anything to win them over.  The person who really made an effort to win them over is their daughter-in-law.  It seems quite unfair to me that my parents-in-law like me more than her. 

[PRC]

Parents: dysfunctional. 

In-laws: reasonably ok.  We meet once every month or so.  For some weird reason they seem quite fond of me from the start, even though I honestly didn't do anything to win them over.  The person who really made an effort to win them over is their daughter-in-law.  It seems quite unfair to me that my parents-in-law like me more than her. 

Isn't your Father-in-Law an epic Feng Shui master?  He must have some solid vibe from you to be so happy with you from the start, no?

[Monoriu]

Isn't your Father-in-Law an epic Feng Shui master?  He must have some solid vibe from you to be so happy with you from the start, no?

Pretty sure he doesn't know me well enough the first time he met me to make any fung shui predictions.  Actually, the mother-in-law is the one who likes me most.