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Spinoff: Are you close with your family?

I feel blessed after reading this stuff

I get along fine with my siblings and my parents .

Only time I didn’t was when I was a teenager / early 20s

I talk or text to my siblings a couple times a week , try to call my dad twice a week , he’s 88 and lives by himself after my mom passed a few years ago .

We visit him every two or three months for a long weekend , he lives 400 miles away .

I have one great friend that I’ve known for 50 years and I chat with him every couple of weeks ,

Have a couple of other good friends that I chat or text with every couple of weeks .

I got along fine with my wife’s siblings and parents , her father passed and her mother is in an assisted living facility, she’s withdrawn and doesn’t talk much .

Plays video games most of the time and doesn’t talk much . It’s like being around a 13 year old except she’s 78 and lives 500 miles away.
 
roundhouse said:
I feel blessed after reading this stuff

I get along fine with my siblings and my parents .

Only time I didn’t was when I was a teenager / early 20s

I talk or text to my siblings a couple times a week , try to call my dad twice a week , he’s 88 and lives by himself after my mom passed a few years ago .

We visit him every two or three months for a long weekend , he lives 400 miles away .

I have one great friend that I’ve known for 50 years and I chat with him every couple of weeks ,

Have a couple of other good friends that I chat or text with every couple of weeks .

I got along fine with my wife’s siblings and parents , her father passed and her mother is in an assisted living facility, she’s withdrawn and doesn’t talk much .

Plays video games most of the time and doesn’t talk much . It’s like being around a 13 year old except she’s 78 and lives 500 miles away.
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Please tell me she's playing call of duty or something online and talking shit to kids while whooping their ass??:laughing:
 
I only speak to my dad and work with him.

Have a half sister maybe exchange a couple texts a year

A half brother. Who is still bitter thinking our dad was rich jokes on him. Irony is his grandma from his mom lost millions because he was growing and distributing 20 years ago she lost everything.

I’m good
 
Slander said:
Please tell me she's playing call of duty or something online and talking shit to kids while whooping their ass??:laughing:
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I wish

She does games where you color in pictures , like an electronic coloring book and sometimes she plays word games like scrabble etc


She was fine , and then one day she just had a mental breakdown and they’ve tried every kind of anti depressant on the planet and nothing works , she’s not rude or mean , she just has no interest in a conversation.

Which is sad because before , she was always active in local community, grew a huge garden every year , was a great seamstress and made fancy clothes etc , and was always talking about politics and news and world events and she wrote so many letters to her congressmen and senators , that she’d get birthday cards from the governor etc .

And before she got sick she’d kick anyone and everyone’s ass in scrabble and other games where you had to think
 
Born in '66, parents divorced in '68, dad remarried in '70 to a woman with a son and daughter, then they had one son. Did the occasional weekends at dad's. Always felt like the outsider. That never changed. Step brother bombed in school, caused my dad a ton of grief, but his wife made sure stepbrother squirmed out of everything. Could go months to year plus not talking to dad's side. Always stayed in touch with mom. Mom passed in '10, dad in '19, step brother found dead behind some bldg in downtown Memphrica end of December '20. Was homeless/alcoholic, never could keep his shit together. Didn't find out he died until May or so of '21. Stepmom died soon after. Put stepbrother's ashes in the casket with his mother. Fitting because sb was a shameless mommas boy, never denied it, embraced it, shouted it from the rooftop. Do stay in touch with one of my uncles on dad's side, really cool dude. And my cousin from moms side. That's about it.
 
Slander said:
Ahhh that sucks man, sorry to hear
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Hard to watch but she’s not rude or violent , she’s just withdrawn into a shell and doesn’t talk much .

Few years ago Wife’s father got the flu real bad and collapsed , wife’s sister was there visiting to help since he was pretty sick ,
Ambulance transports him to the hospital and he’s non responsive .
After a couple of x rays the ER docs announce he has lung cancer bad .
He’s in a coma for a few days and dies .

Bump into the doctor in the Piggly Wiggly store (small town ) and doc says he’s sorry about Jimmy , when he came to me a few weeks ago he was already eat up so bad with cancer there was just nothing we could do .

Doc was stunned to learn that Jimmy never told his wife or children that he had cancer and only had a few weeks to live .

He didn’t have the flu , he had cancer and knew it and didn’t tell anyone .
 
I get along with my 2 sisters but we don't talk very often. Dad passed away 11 years ago and mom has dementia, conversations get really repetitive. We're close with our son and the grandkids.
 
My mom and stepdad, and Mrs family, yes. I text or chat with our girls almost daily.

My extended family? I told them to pound sand around 1985. I don’t regret that decision one bit.
 
Sort of. Talk to my brothers and nephew anywhere from once a week to several times a day. Parents less often but I keep tabs on them. Cousins etc not at all, one uncle I talk to him a few times a year other than family functions.
 
Close immediate family. Extended family not so much. I talk or text with my brother and sister 4-5 times a week. Parents are dead. Mom's remaining sister is a money grabbing narcissist. Last time I saw her was when I kicked her out of my parent's house when my dad was dying. Speak to a cousin every five years or so, the rest I haven't spoken to in decades. My sister keeps in touch with them.
 
Talk to my folks usually every weekend. Usually throw the Blueteeth in and it's while I'm doing something not too loud.

Used to talk to my brother and sister every week or two years ago but anymore my sister maybe every 2-3 months, though she is on the group chat Facebook thing.
My brother... like once a year. Always claims he's busy. Hot pissed when I told him everyone is busy, but people find time for what they feel is important. Can't even spare 30 mins every month or three... I mean come on.
 
Well I live on the farm with my parents, so you could say we're pretty close
my brother lives a half hour away so hes here fairly often
one sister lives 5ish hours away, and I cant get in her house so I pretty much only see her a couple times a year
other sister lives like 8 states away and I haven't seen her since 2016, but she recently left her dickbag husband so shes actually talking to us again
cousins and aunts/uncles, we get together for holidays, and plenty of us all live pretty local so I run into some of them at any given time, usually at a bar

And I don't talk on the phone to anybody for more than 4 minutes
 
Forgot to add I talk or text my daughter and her fiance almost daily. She still likes me so I must have done alright. Her and her fiance have been together since they were both 15. His parents are losers, absentee dad. They are 30 now, so I am more of a dad than his real dad.
 
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I talk with my brother pretty often. if i didnt show up at dads place id never hear from him again. talk to mom every time im in town though i can only stand her for short periods.
 
I try to stay away from my family, no good will come from seeing them. I haven't spoken to my sister since my mom passed 5 years ago. Dad passed away 2 years ago, hadn't talked to him in probably 25 years.

I text my brother once or twice a year. But he's 1500 miles away so he can't pull to many shenanigans.
 
Both my parents have passed. I have a sister, but not really close. Our age difference comes into play there.

Now, I am close to my two sons and the four grandkids. That's about all the family I have left.
 
I was blessed (I never use that word?) with awesome supportive parents till death did they part. Mom in ‘16, dad & I leaned hard on each other till I lost him about a week before thanksgiving last year.
We were both pretty fuckin lost. Now my friends are my family, & they help me find my way.
 
white-rhino said:
No. Been closer to my brother the last 7 months since my dad fell. Now that he is gone and we have finalized his estate, I suspect we won’t talk much, if ever. Wife talks to her mom & sisters but we don’t get together.
Cousins - next to never.
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Edit to this. Didn't comment about my parents because they are both gone. Spoke to my mom weekly. Spoke to my dad about every other day. Back when they were healthy we saw them frequently and camped together a lot.
 
No.

Brother didn't even tell me when his kid was born. No real animosity between us, just kind of drifted apart and live vastly different lives.

Have never been close with my mother. She has legit mental issues and there was some borderline abuse growing up. I have no real animosity, but also still don't feel super warmly towards her.

My dad is cool. He calls me once a week, even if it is to talk about the same old BS.
 
Close enough? Dad & Mom live in the same neighborhood, Dad shares an office with me so I see him most days. I stop in to see Mom at least weekly. Two brothers I don't see except at family events. We aren't distant just not close. One daughter works for me and I usually catch the other two daughters on the phone with my wife once a week or so. Aunts, uncles and cousins are a mixed bag, only see some of them at funerals.

Have more than 20 extended family coming over for Mom's 80th birthday party in a couple hours.
 
I'm not super close with any of my family. My mother died when I was 22, so 28 years ago, my father may as well be dead since I haven't spoken to him is over 30 years. My sister lives less than a 1/4 mile away but we rarely talk and can't spend more than a few hours together without getting into some sort of argument. I have an aunt that tries to keep us all together, but it rarely works our except for Xmas, and that's a drag for me either way. My son has his own life now and while we talk every week or so, it's nothing heavy, just shooting the shit and that's fine. I have assorted cousins and whatnot all around this small town, but they are only good for a "Hey" when we see each other in a store or some half-hearted promise to get together "sometime" that no one intends to follow through with.

All in all, I am happy with this situation. I've never been really into family since my childhood was a little fucked up. I prefer being left alone and that's usually what I get.
 
My Mom remarried after my Fathers death when I was 5. Complete asshole power tripper bully. He quit beating me the last time he gave it his all with the belt across my back and I just turned around and looked at him. He of course made his own kids and immediately starting pushing the baggage out
Fucker went to great lengths of abusive, tried to address it to Mom thousands of times as a kid, but that was want Mom wanted, so you have to deal with it
Grown up, my sisters stopped talking to me when I quit giving them money. My last conversation as an adult with my Mom was 13+ years ago
I have made a decision that the bullshit stops in my life, you be better tomorrow than you were yesterday, own your mistakes or I will remove you from my life
The other side of the family, same deal. I have to treat them like 75 year old toddlers. Send them home to have a time out when they can't get their way and want to yell at me. It is exhausting. I haven't really talked with them for years other than at a family's funeral
I do have a family. It is a selective group of friends than ironically have at their own times have made the conscious decisions that I have made. Improve or go
The only person that I do contact if my brother and I really don't put much effort into it. I maybe see him once a year, and it is me trying to keep a relationship. I ask for one afternoon to sit with him, his wife, me and my daughter and to watch a 80's movie classic and have a pizza. I will buy
I asked over a week ago, last I heard he was going to 'call me back' so I let it go. My kid just wants to know who he is, but he is a drunk, and I don't have much patients for it

My new 'family'?
My kid went for a flight lesson last evening, landed and went over to their house, had pizza, sat on the porch and watched a lightening storm. It was awesome
 
I'm closer with my stepdad than anyone else in my family.

When I hear the phrase "we'll treat you like family" I turn around and gtf out of there 😆
 
Pretty close with the inlaws, very much the opposite with my family. Talk to my brother about monthly, but that's a schedule thing. Sister occasionally, mom rarely, like twice a year, haven't talked to my dad in 4 years, and that trend will continue
 
Nope, not close to my family at all. Will talk to my wife's family once in a while, it's not that I dislike them, but I'm not a communicative type.
 
i come from a big fam.. im close two maybe 3 out or 14. im more close to the lady that raised me, i see her 2x month.
 
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