Were you brought up in a happy, loving, caring, sharing family or an everyone-for-themselves stingy family?

[FunkyMonkee]

There was no love in my family, at least not past my 4th or 5th b-day. Nobody shared anything, nobody was taught to love or care for the others, it was all I, me, mine! Well, for them, anyway. They were allowed to do anything they wanted with my stuff but I wasn't even allowed to think about looking at theirs. It always made me feel like I was some kind of experiment that everyone but me was in on. It's no wonder I mostly keep to myself.

[Cutegirl06]

Yes I was brought up in a very loving family where we hug often. Told that we are loved very much ❤️

[FunkyMonkee]

I envy you!

[Cutegirl06]

Sorry your family treated you like they did 😥

[FunkyMonkee]

Thanks! So am I!

[Cutegirl06]

Were you the youngest?

[FunkyMonkee]

Oldest. When I was little, I was dad's "A number 1 son", like Charlie Chan used to call his son. Then he started to notice that I wasn't as great as he'd like me to be. I wasn't as good at baseball as he was, I wasn't into building things, the way he was, I wasn't as good at math as I was supposed be so, he'd get pissed at me for not being as good as he'd hoped. He started picking on me for piddley little nothings that I either did wrong or didn't do well enough, at least not well enough to suit him. He'd start punishing me for shit I didn't do (my sister leaves the t. v. on, the lights on or the front door wide open, when she's left the house and I'M the one that gets into trouble for it, even though I'm not even in the same room. Or, I get into trouble for not following her around and picking up after her!), I'm always treated like the youngest and dumbest of the lot even though I'm the smartest of the bunch!

[Cutegirl06]

So you were the scapegoat. My boyfriend was a scapegoat in his family. He had an older sister that treated him very badly and his mother blamed him for what his sister did to him like beating him up. His sister was 5 years older than he was! His mother would tell him to stay away from her. But how could he stay away from someone that's always there? She would accuse him of stealing things from her room and wouldn't apologize to him when she found them in her room. His mother would just laugh at him. He now has ptsd from what they did to him. His uncle adopted him at 13.

[FunkyMonkee]

Yes, the princesses could get away with murder and I'd get blamed for it and my brother was dad's drinking buddy so, nothing bad ever happened to him, either, although he bitched and moaned like it did!!

[Cutegirl06]

I kinda know how you feel from how my boyfriend feels. His sister was treated like a princess too, she would get all new clothes while his mother bought his clothes at the goodwill most of them were too small for him and his sister would show how nice her clothes were and how he had to wear clothes that didn't fit him just to rub it in his face. She was a bitch!

[Sparkie460]

Yes I was brought up in a loving and pretty happy environment. We did have our moments like any other family. My older brother and sister did tease me when I was younger, until I punched them and gave them both black eyes. They never did that again.

[NathanDavis]

yes, a generally positive household and a good one too... but not the most affectionate and expressive one... at least not when we were young, when grandchildren showed up... that did change a lot and for the better

[wiltingrosepetal]

Lovey-dovey. I just finished wrapping up Christmas presents for my mum and brother

[KrakenAttackin]

I never had much family so survival was my main concern.

[mandyfire98]

Happy loving and caring family.

[Anonymous]

Mine is 50/50