I can't be the only one...

[lagilman]

[Poll #1809188]

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[suelder.livejournal.com]

I do talk to my mom and sister very often. My brother, less so, but we deal. I think it was the "most of the time" that decided my answer ;-)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I am just about getting over the cold that Sister left behind . . .

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I do talk to my sister occasionally, but the relationship is closer to keeping in touch with somebody I used to work with that of siblings. . . which I suppose is reasonable, given a twelve-year gap in the proceedings.

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

Except for occasional interactions with nieces and nephews via Facebook, most of my family contact happens when I initiate it. Parents are dead, brothers don't call me, they're 17 and 15 years older so occasionally I do initiate contact because that seems to be what's expected. I'm still the family black sheep, I guess.

DH's family occasionally tries to lure us into socializing, but he's not that wild about it. It's pretty much our own nuclear family, because DS is still at home in adulthood while he goes to school.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

I doubt any of my cousins would recognize me if they fell over me.

And a couple of them are in the 'may god bless and keep the Tsar far away...'

My family is... complicated.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

My dad's adoptive family- I don't see near as much anymore, but I rather love them.

My dad's birth family- I've only just found within the last year and am still getting to know, but most I rather like.

My stepfamily- definitely like and love them.

My birthmom's family- we just won't go there.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Let's just say I dread getting together on my side of the family.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

It would require an entire essay to respond properly to this question.

My father died in 1976; I am now older than he ever was. I miss him every day. I had many aunts, uncles, and cousins on his side of the family. I am not interested in any of them.

My mother is now in a nursing care facility in Western Pennsylvania. My sister works across the street. I love and enjoy most of the huge clan of Pennsylvania relatives, now unto the fourth generation. I do not see them much, however, although Facebook keeps us together. The grandfather of this clan was not my mother's biological father, but we all trace ourselves to Nana, Grazietta, for whom I (and a handful of new babies) was named.

My younger twin brothers: you have heard this story before. We don't hang out together or do stuff together, but we love each other fiercely and are in touch several times a month. While our lives and goals are almost totally different, we share a relentless desire to be around folks, to know about feelings, to not sit still, and to have the music on. And to talk. To talk a lot. This might remind you of another person in your circle.

[lagilman]

It would require an entire essay to respond properly to this question.

Actually, all it takes is hitting the ticky box. But essays welcome, too. :-)

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

My family love each other but get along better when there are three or fewer of my nuclear family together.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

should have "all the above" and "wish they were cats" ticky boxies!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Um, I need a 'love em,, sometimes want to kill em' box.

[katfeete.livejournal.com]

I work for or with my immediate family. No one is dead. Pretty sure it's love rather than lack of energy and/or accredited hitmen.

[natf.livejournal.com]

Some of my immediate family I love and like (my brother and his fiancé especially but my dad's sister / my aunt as well) but some I can only spend a few hours with and then not very frequently (my mum and dad, separately and for separate reasons).

[(Anonymous)]

Two things:

1) Now I'm really curious where you fall on this spectrum - I assume at one of the ends.

2) This reminds me of a short discussion I had with a colleauge, at my first desk job after leaving college:

him: I'm going to go visit my parents next
week.
me: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Him: Huh?
me: You said you were visiting your parents? So I was wishing you good luck.
*short confused pause*
me: Oh! You mean - you actually get along with your parents?! Oh! Well then, uh, have fun!

(When and where i went to college, it was the norm to have familial problems.)

[lagilman]

I have no idea who you are, Anonymous (would it kill people to sign their posts, if they don't have one of the many accounts accepted here?) but I'll answer anyway, in addition to having filled out the poll myself.

I am quite fortunate in having immediate family (parents, sisters, cousins) that I like as people, as well as love as family. I don't always AGREE with them (one cousin in particular, we no longer talk about politics. or religion. or finances), but I like and love them all.