Poll: do you love your family.

[BeeRye]

I appreciate all my family does for me, but I find that I would rather not spend time with them or do anything meaningful with them. I just don't feel like I'm similar to any of them and I don't get them so to speak. I don't like to be forced to associate with or interact with people on a regular basis either, related or not if I have nothing to say to them then I have nothing to say to them and if I have to be around them when that's the case it's just awkward for everyone.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I love my family. None of my siblings are annoying, although that may be cause I have no little brothers/sisters, only older ones. And they're often very helpful. And my parents are usually very understanding. So yes, I love them. Nothing really negative about them, except that we all have an annoying habit of debating until we lose all oxygen in our body.

 

[soren7550]

Largely no. Mostly it consist of a bunch of racist inbred rednecks that have way too many mental problems. Can't really love that.

 

[Darkfreak]

I lov'em but somtimes they really annoy me...

 

[Vrex360]

Yeah, me and my sisters get along the most actually. Two sisters both older than me, helped raise me I think.
Helped me embrace left wing values.

 

[NattyMichael]

Unlike some people, I don't feel the need to share my life story with anonymous fools.

It is as if morons feel that they have two choices: "share my messed up life with as many people as possible, or do something to improve my situation." Do your love your family...oh, yeah, that's really the sort of thing I'm going to share with YOU.

I ate my family, how's that? I ate them right the fuck up.

Fools! Get out of my perfect world!

Im not sharing my bad life, I can if you want me too? but only if you say please, I was asking if other people love there families?

Yes, you are. It's implicit.

As in, not "by the way, do you love your family? This isn't coming from anywhere, by the way, just asking for no real reason because this is the sort of thing you ask people that you don't know for the sake of conversation."

But don't worry, because I understand.

/pats on head

how is it implicit, whats does implicit mean? i shoud google it and not look like an idiot on here really but anyway...i was just wondering if you "have" to love your family and if people actually dont, so no this isnt so i can subliminally moan about my life, you assume to much.

 

[ace_of_something]

I have 4 older brothers a twin brother 3 sister in laws 3 nieces and 3 nephews and good parents. I can count on anyone in my family just as they can count on me. Over the years my brothers and I have gotten closer and realize that we're different in a lot of ways and the same in many other ways. One of my brothers died 6 years ago and miss him every day. For those who don't get along with their siblings just wait until you're all older it usually gets easier My brothers and I are between ages 29-40 and they're all some of my best friends.

 

[DoctorWhat]

I voted "sometimes" only because there's no "some of them" option. I love my parents but hate, hate HATE my little brother...

 

[Legion]

I find the idea of loving my family creepy in the extreme.
Don't get me wrong: Some of them are okay people.

But love?
No.

Love is inseparable from romance, for me - I tolerate my family.
Barely.

That's the way I view it.

Even if you care for them a lot I don't see how it is love because a) You have no choice, the feelings are purely instinctual for a lot of people and b) It's usually an unconditional feeling, no matter how much they mess up you will still care to an extent.

I know for a fact that if I were not related to them (and therefore have no instinctual attachment) then I would not be fond of the people my family in general are.

 

[JanatUrlich]

Yah but I don't particularily like them or anything. We get on well enough =D

 

[Snuggle]

Every time something happens that makes me not like them, I, after a while, realize how much they mean to me. They should be enjoyed in small doses, though.

 

[Sigel]

I love my immediate family dearly. I don't really care about my extended family at all. I love my husband, but don't really like or care for his family.

 

[Andaxay]

Meh. I have a tiny family. I could quite happily walk away from the lot and start my own family. I have plans for the future that don't involve them. I don't tell them anything, so they don't know me as well as they like to think they do. That's my choice. Once I'm out, I'm gone.

My mum left her family behind when she was pretty young, and she's doing fine for herself now. Maybe my opinion is a bit cold-hearted, but I have no desire to keep them in my life. I do love them, but I wouldn't miss them terribly.

 

[Hookman]

Of course! I may not like some of them that much but I love them nonetheless!

 

[Librarian Mike]

I love my folks and sister, but I'm also really glad they live in another city.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I'd take a bullet for most of my friends. even some acquaintences.
some of my family I wouldn't. I don't mean immediate family, I would for them, but some people don't deserve to have a bullet taken for them...