Are you close with your family? If not why?

[Anonymous]

I personally hate my family because they are snarky little bitches, toxic, verbally and physically abusive, jealous

I wish they will hit the finish line in their lives soon for what they did to me. I’m always the nice and quiet one in my family but I can’t keep associating my life with people I can’t bear to stay in touch with, as bad as it sounds; I don’t even like any of them at all. They are the reason why i developed BPD, which nothing can heal me but it can be managed by drugs but i hate taking drugs it fucks my life so i stopped. How about you?

Thanks for reading my rant

Yes

No. Why?

[midnightmoon05]

I am close with my family.
my parents fought a lot but we stayed together. I didn’t like their fights…I just did my own things. They fed me and gave me the basic needs. Nothing special…but I grow up to keep the family together…my mom often instigates and want us 4 siblings to fight over nothing…we never felt for her trap.
Us 4 siblings are very loving and caring and call/talk often to help each other out…it’s been like this for over 30 years. as I recall when we became teenagers and started to go our own way…we all became very successful and run businesses “together” we help each other out…as our mom continues to try to split us regarding money.
our youngest sister is 10 years younger than me and is starting out…we three are helping her and her new baby and husband…so that she can catch up with us.
as far as meds…they told me at one point to take meds. I refused and I worked on my own…I am stable now…it was hard work.
I now am training my teen daughter who has high anxiety to work on herself with the help of us…as well as on her own.

all 4 of us didn’t take on our parents personality. We are all very calm and successful.

we can take on the hate and negativity… but it doesn’t help us. So I look the other way…much happier life.

[HelpfulWoman]

abusive mother, mothers side of the family chose her over me, including siblings.
its so much better without her in my life, but i am sad that my fathers side is now just him since my Nan passed.

[exitseven]

I am close to my wife and kids. The rest of them i have not seen in many years.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Sour-rose]

Nope. One is chicago, one is in dallas and the other is in oregon. It's not a bad thing it's just... we barely talk to each other because we're that far from each other. If we meet, then yeah, we can catch up and I can come out to the. 98% of my family knows but only 2 left now.

[Bethany22]

Exactly the same as you. Emotional abuse is so difficult for outsiders to see, because gaslighting is so hard to prove.

[Nikki1989]

My parents abandoned when I was 12. I only saw them one more time after that day, and I have never seen them ever since.

[LazerBean]

Yes, we visit every week

[Gabriel-Chicanito]

Some'uh us come froM "broken homes".