The question is about your family. Do you miss them?

I don't seem to have ever remember to miss my family whatsoever. I am surprise to tell the truth actually. I thought I would miss my family the first few week at school, but that wasn't the way it turn out. They do call every day, but I treated it as any other call I receives. I guess college finally shows me how horrible life is with my family, that I simply don't think of them. I'm not sad or glad to stay in college during Spring Break.

The question is about your family. Do you miss them?

I don't seem to have ever remember to miss my family whatsoever. I am surprise to tell the truth actually. I thought I would miss my family the first few week at school, but that wasn't the way it turn out. They do call every day, but I treated it as any other call I receives. I guess college finally shows me how horrible life is with my family, that I simply don't think of them. I'm not sad or glad to stay in college during Spring Break.

Hi Chris,

Our parents can be very critical and demanding. But deep down inside, I'm sure they love you very much. I used to hate my parents and wanted to move away from home.

But after college, I realized that I've gotten closer to my parents. Why do you think they call everyday? I'm sure it is because they are worried and missed you.

Someday, you will realize that they do love you very much.

Please stay positive and share your thoughts with all of us.

Vanessa

I've never had a father. and the woman I loved like a mother died when I was in high school. so I don't have a family in the traditional sense. but I do have 3 brothers, 1 niece. and another on the way very soon. and it just so happens that I am not a home. at the moment I'm in my very own personal hell. other wise known as ohio. and I hate it hear. every day I think of my niece. she's only 11 months. her birthday is next month. thankfully I will be back in texas just in time for that. so yeah, I do miss my family. but im sorry if your parents were butt wads. I can totally relate to that. my bio dad was a no show and my bio mom is a bitch

Hey Chris, well I'm sorry you're feeling that way about your family.
Well as much as how sometimes I feel like I don't fit in with my family members, there have been the good times as well and I always put that on top of the bad memories so I won't have to go through the bad again in my head.
I will miss them if I'm away from them for a long time. I just love my family to no end despite how they may treat me or if they even care about me. At least I know that I've been raised well and at least I'm thankful and grateful to my parents for this.

You know sometimes a call from them a day could mean so much..especially when they're no longer around in the future and then you realising how much they actually care. Well that's from my experience.

Then again, you can't force yourself to care for anyone or anything if you really don't. I can understand this well too.

I would have been better off as an orphan - should have called social services when I was 8 years old it could have saved my ass from a lot of BS

Every member of my family sickens and disgusts me in his or her own specific way. My father's overly proud, arrogant, and simple-minded; my brother's maliciously annoying, hypocritical, and single-minded; and my mother's arrogant, hypocritical, hostile, stubborn, vehement, confrontational, and utterly paranoid.

I know "loving your family despite their problems" is supposed to be the noble thing to do, but honestly, only a clinically insane individual could live with my family and actually love them.

Honestly, I think I feel a lot of the same.
I moved away for Uni to stay with my brother for a while because he moved away when I was so young. I feel like it was done in vain, because the relationship I was trying to build got nowhere. My mother than moved to the same city. And even though I live with my parents now and my brother is not too far, I feel incredibly distant. I honestly do not feel comfortable with my family. I only talk to them just for practicality's sake, there's no closeness or intimacy. I talk to them like a would a stranger your stuck with in a room for a while or like roomates. Most times, even though I'm 20, I'm still treated like a child and obviously my opinion is not valued while they talk amongst themselves. Most times, there are times when I think once I'm on my own and living off myself, I won't miss them. I hate thinking it, but I really think it's the case most times. I just have no ties to hold on to with any of them. So, they're there, they're my family, but only by blood I guess.

i hate interacting with my family, i just feel so uncomfortable around, I'll get mad at them if they stay in the same I'm in for too long

I used to have a lot of hatred for my family, I ran away at 11 and then memory ended with my father chasing me threw an almond field, then i moved in with my older brother and that was good but i just seemed to be a big inconvienence to them as they were starting a family of there own. So then i ended up getting tough love treatment and got kicked out. Then i stayed at place to place did whatever had to be done to continue to stay under a roof, and finally dropped out of school to work under the table as a dishwasher. After being homeless for a couple of years i finally landed a good job and started getting along with my family as long as I acted as if everything about me and my life was always great. I would visit 3 days a week at one point and I actually felt happy.But then when I got the closest I ever have been to them they all and i mean all (my mom dad brothers, grandma, aunts, cousins, etc all of them moved to Las Vegas and I was to financially strapt to follow) it killed me to lose a taste of what i was starting to have and to watch it go. Now i never hear from my grandma or any outside family at all and as for my parents I really think they forget I exist so occasionally i call them once every three or five months. And see them maybe once in every 3-4 years, but as much as i am bitter towards them and hate them at times, I still miss them in my life

I've never particularly missed my family, to be honest. Perhaps it'll change in the future, but my experience of leaving them hs been, as a whole, very healthy for me.

Regards,
IO