Questions: Family & Friends

I mean adult or child. They could act like the nicest person in the world, smile at all the right times and meet your eyes. But what are the common tells that someone actually isn’t a good person? And how often are you right about when it comes to judging a person’s character?

The older I get, the more I realize that I've grown closer to my friends than my family. While I love my family dearly, it's just not the same as the love I have for my friends.

I know that may be messed up to say seeing as these are the people that raised me, but I've built such a strong connection and bond with my friends. Something that wasn't forced but just happened unlike with family where you're kind of forced to have a bond with them.

Not saying that you shouldn't have a bond with family, but I just noticed the bond is a lot stronger with my two closest friends.

For the past two years, I’ve decided to go on a solo holiday during the summer time - which has been great.

However last year when I mentioned to my parents that I was going, my dad was like ‘oh I could come with you!’ And I just automatically thought no…because for me it would be weird going alone with my dad. So I just didn’t really respond and ignored the comment.

This year, same again. He made a joke about going with me by saying ‘oh I could just come along and you could pretend you’re my carer’ sort of thing. I just ignored that comment as well and thought no way.

Just before I left for my holiday, my dad was suggesting to my mum that they should go to the Maldives. To which my mum declined and said ‘she’ll go with you’ meaning me. To which I got angry and said ‘don’t be so stupid’. She laughed but I genuinely didn’t find it funny.

Am I overreacting?