Does anyone on here NOT consider their biological family as their family?

[GalacticGhost]

I don't consider anyone from my biological dad's side family, my dad included. It's been a decade since I last saw any of them except for maybe a cousin, and even then that's only because we go to the same school. We never actually speak to each other, even when we're in the same classes.

I also don't consider my step-dad family, for reasons that I really want to forget about. I'm so glad I haven't seen him at all since last year because of what he's done.

 

[Alienfish]

My dad is a major ******* but he still loves me in his own ways. .

Sounds like it, not.

Yeah most of my family/relatives are grade A a-holes because they refuse to treat me as an adult let alone verrry few people. So no I don't consider them that.

 

[visibleghost]

I consider my closest family (mom, dad, siblings) my family.

with relatives I don't really care as much... I'm really not close to my cousins on my father's side, but we are still related and I still consider them my relatives because, like, we are related... yeah..??
I don't consider my mother's aunt and her children and grandchildren my relatives, though. I never really meet them and it would just be weird to consider them part of my family or something. I know that we are related in some way but I don't really care about them.

 

[Celestefey]

Hm... I don't particularly get along well with either my mum or my dad. I suppose I just prefer not having to spend time with them at all, I'm kind of looking forward to being able to move out. I don't know... I mean I've never really gotten along well with my dad, but at times I feel he can be more understanding. Eg: I suffer with depression and I feel like he understands me better because of that because I think he has other family members who deal with the same thing and I'd say to a degree he also suffers from it from time to time. But my mum refuses to try and understand depression, as soon as I show like a "harmful" symptom (eg: being negative towards myself and everyone else all the time, not wanting to talk, isolating myself, not feeling motivated), she gets annoyed and invalidates my feelings. I just prefer not being around her anymore. I guess the only person that I'm biologically related to that I could consider my family would be my brother as he and I do get along well and we share a lot in common... I do have other relatives but, I don't see them that much.

However I'm grateful I have one really close friend who I would consider to be like family to me. I'm glad that they're in my life. <3

 

[Gregriii]

i dont like my biological dad or my stepdad and i wish they were both dead

so yeah

and i consider a couple older friends as older brothers to me

what a nice thought we got here

 

[Yukari Yakumo]

i dont like my biological dad or my stepdad and i wish they were both dead

so yeah

same here

except my maternal grandmother, I was never close to my grandparents. they were just old people we had to go see every so often

 

[jiny]

i don't consider my uncle on my dad's side my uncle. at first i thought he was cool, but when my paternal grandma died, i found out that he did drugs and i was like nope. he also used my grandma that died for money, and now that she's gone, he has no idea what to do.

all my maternal relatives though, i consider them my family. most of my dad's side i don't really consider them family though..

 

[Acruoxil]

Sounds like it, not.

What makes you say that?

 

[Alienfish]

What makes you say that?

How can he love you after that lmao. Money?

 

[tobi!]

when my cousins come over for thanksgiving or christmas, i know that if we weren't related, we would not be friends and would never see each other ever.

 

[Han Solo]

I love my immediate family like my mom, sisters, and mom's parents. I haven't talked to my dad in four months because of something but it will probably get patched up. I don't really care about anyone else on his side of the family though because I see them maybe twice a year. My boyfriends mom, stepdad, and sisters are like family to me though. As for friends, no. I lost most of them after high school and haven't really made more close ones lol.

 

[gem83]

How can he love you after that lmao. Money?

That's actually really rude. Just because someone can be a d!ck, doesn't mean they don't love you. My parents are *******s on occasion but I know they still love me. Nobody's perfect, love =/= complete and total happiness at all times.

 

[Knopekin]

That's actually really rude. Just because someone can be a d!ck, doesn't mean they don't love you. My parents are *******s on occasion but I know they still love me. Nobody's perfect, love =/= complete and total happiness at all times.

This. You only get one family, and guess what? They're not going to be perfect. It's tedious seeing kids hating on their parents for not being 100% lovely and supportive all the time. My mum fell out with her dad when she was 20 because he was being too controlling, and she cut off all contact with him for 10 years. They made up a few years before he died, but she regrets those lost years every day because nothing can bring them back.

Possibly because of that I have a really good relationship with both of my parents, and my little sister, who's my favourite person in the world. I don't have any grandparents and I have very few aunts or uncles and they live a very long way away, so the four of us are very close.

 

[Cinn_mon]