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You Can Choose Your Friends …
... but you're stuck with your family. Do you get along with them all - or are there some you would swap if you could?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My sister: she always did naughty things when we were growing up and for some reason I got the blame. Now she's worked her way through three husbands and has now upgraded to a millionaire. She never visits family or old friends but is enjoying her fake life in Cheshire so good luck to her. It's not jealous as I have a husband of 30+ years and a lovely family. I feel sad for my late parents who never saw her the last 5 years of their lives.
There aren't many of us on my side, just my kids & grandkids and my sister and her 2 children. I love all of them - with the possible exception of my grandson whom I try to love despite the sullen, teenager he has become - knows everything & nothing. Grit teeth & stick with him - he'll probably come out of it.
OH's side - I can't stand his daughter and she can't stand me. She's a v.well-off London socialist - she won't come to see him even though she could well afford to stop in a B&B and come to take him out for the day. Hurts him deeply - am I allowed to say she's a snooty bovine? I'll find out.
Love OH's son and his partner, and ex-wife and children and our gt. grandchildren. See them all too rarely.
like many younger people i often pretend to agree with older relatives on political matters because they can be quite unpleasant otherwise and i do not wish to turn family events into pointless arguments... other than that i have a horrible cousin that i consider to be a psychopath and a few relatives who really struggle with either addiction or mental health... they are not bad people but they are difficult to be around sometimes
fortunately i get on very well with my parents and siblings and i am lucky enough to have a good relationship with my grandmother who is almost 90