Following a post I made earlier, on another thread, I wondered if you really, really, like your relatives.

For myself, I really like, indeed love my very close family of my children and their children....I don't care at all about my wider relatives. I am sure the feeling is mutual............

How do you feel?...........

I love my mum. I haven't seen any other relatives in a long time; we're not a close family. I do care for them though, and would help them out if they were in need.

I love them to bits; I'm very fortunate to be part of a close, loving family.
They're a pain sometimes, but I love them all dearly. I'm a lucky man. I still have both of my parents, two lovely children and more nephews, nieces and assorted cousins than you could shake a stick at...:)

I have a very small family and I am not close to many of them, other then my dad and my grandma, who i am close to and love to death.

Following a post I made earlier, on another thread, I wondered if you really, really, like your relatives.

For myself, I really like, indeed love my very close family of my children and their children....I don't care at all about my wider relatives. I am sure the feeling is mutual............

How do you feel?...........

I get on with most of my family,but havent always done so.I definitely dont think you should feel guilty if you dont get on with them,so if you feel more at home with a personal friend,dont feel bad about it.

As I said on Shoeshine's aforementioned other thread, I'm estranged from a truly awful bunch of blood-rellies. It's tough but it's just the luck of the draw.

However, I'm a student at Sheffield College, on a course full of (mature) students who just talk about their family ALL DAY and NOTHING else. I've tried to steer the conversation onto other sundry topics but they drag it back to family within 30 seconds. I've never encountered anything quite like it, and I find it quite difficult to bear now. It's supposed to be higher education but I feel like an alien for being in the world at large rather than a domestic bubble. But maybe I'm envious that I can't join in their club.

:(

Close to brother and parents and come from a close family.

However as I moved from my hometown I have lost the connection with most of my Aunts and Uncles and cousins as I just don't see them anymore. If I am at home, it is to spend time with my Mum, Dad and brother, not to trail round catching up on cousins. So may run in to them at Xmas for an hour.

The exception is my Mum's sister who makes a point of coming to visit if I am at home. Mind you my Mum keeps me up to date with every single detail of whats going on.....

My cousins son is coming to Sheffield to study, so I've been in more contact with them lately as he was looking for advice.

The sad thing is, with the death of my Aunt recently, I have been thinking about family, and its likely once my parents die (hopefully not for a long time) I will lose contact with cousins as we don't really have that much contact and have our own lives.

I don't like my mother but I totally love my Grandad (her dad) and my brother and two sisters. I have cousins and one auntie and uncle, we're not close as they live quite far away so don't really see them much. Other than that, don't really have any relatives. Possibly some second cousins and a neice of my dads, we don't see them often enough to love either really.

i get on brillianly with my mum, shes my best friend, and i hate living miles away from her (shes in lincoln). i refuse to see my dad as he's a horrible man, and none of his side of the family have kept in touch with me, no big loss though!
my mums side of the family all live in glasgow and never visit me, and its rare that i can get time to go up there. as ive got older (i.e not a child any more!) then we dont even keep in touch by cards, i suppose i ought to make more of an effort, but its hard knowing where to start...!:huh:

i get on with all my family except my sister, she's done too many hurtful things to people i care about

My mum is the most ace person I have ever met or likely to meet! She is my best friend ever & I wouldnt know what to do without her! AWsome... really is all I can say! My big bro aint bad either.. hes cool! Thats it for me loving the old family............

I like most of my folks most of the time, but there are a couple of my rellies that do my head in, industrial style. Not going to post who they are as there is always a chance they'll read this but, no, I don't like some of them at all.

I wish my parents would stop criticising me/what I do. Just 'cos I do things differently to the way they do/did things doesn't mean they are wrong. God, where would we be without difference?

Rant over. Sorry.

I'm close to my parents, my kids and one of my brothers but I hate my younger brother and don't see or speak to him for the many lies he's told and for the things he's done to hurt people.

Love my mum and dad to bits, my sister I love also but a little of her goes a long, long way:D

I find all my relatives agreeable except for my Aunt Marian. She has never liked me either, having never forgiven me for letting down Uncle Brian's car tyres one Sunday afternoon in Chesterfield, 1973. She once bought me an Easter egg which I am convinced was fashioned from dog chocolate, and refused me bandages when I fell out of a tree in Staveley. She is a wicked, wicked woman. I take solace in my belief that God is a wrathful and avenging God.

yes i love my family

I love my sister the most, she is only 3 yrs older than me but she is my best friend and has helped me out soooooo many times.

I do love my parents but I don't get on with them that much any more, I see them a lot, but at the moment they aren't happy with some decisions I have made about my life etc!!

I love my Nannans but my mums mum can be nasty, she favours my mums sister and always tells my mum how good my aunt is doin an if mym mum said she was ill my aunt would be dyin sorta thing and wouldn't even ask if she is oky and it does my head in cos it upsets my mum.

I have got Uncles that I haven't seen for years and cousins and to be honest I don't think it would bother me if I didn't speak to them again, I am closer to my friends than them!!!

I am an only child my mum was too my granparents are dead .
I Love my mum most of my friends think she is great mainly as she does not appear her age or act it is a little off the wall and calls a spade a shovel.

I do not have any other close relatives unless of course I count my own family mmmmm Husband and children are family so:confused:
YES