Family Matters

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1413272]

Comments

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I get on well enough these days with all my family, but I need my alone time while I'm staying down south.

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Considering that I live across the continent from them, I can take more days of them than if I lived close.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I'm on another continent, so that's pretty much my take on things.

Last time I was out there my mother said wistfully that she and my step-dad get on much better with me (I visit once a year) than they do with my sister (who lives with them 3-4 days a week). I pointed out that this was probably in part *because* I only see them once a year....

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Define "close".

In terms of my father and sister it's as per answers but there's a cousin I talk to almost daily on MSN.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

I have answered as though my father doesn't count. Because he and I get on very well and indeed live together, but I have a VERY different sort of relationship with everyone else I'm related to!

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I'm Asian, so family is very very important. =)

[andrewducker]

Racial Stereotypes FTW!

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

BBC R4: Meet the Patels.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I live with my parents and love them dearly. I talk to my brother fairly often, too. I spend a fair amount of time on my own, though, as I cannot deal with having *anyone* around me constantly. I need at least an hour alone every day or I get cabin fever.

Edited to add: however, I can spend many days with my family as long as I get my alone time :)

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

If by 'talk to' you mean email, Facebook, etc, and I could probably live with them for an indefinite period of time, but not without any 'down' time/alone time, as someone else said - they are pretty noisy.

Also, that icon is so appropriate :P

[dougs.livejournal.com]

julia_winolj suggests a companion poll, where each instance of "my family" is replaced with "my partner's family".

Or "my partners' families" where appropriate.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

As I mention below, I make a point of calling Ann's mom at least once a week. It's the least she deserves.

[wychwood]

If I weren't still living at home, I'd probably speak to my mother once a week, and my father and siblings a few times a year. It really is just about location :)

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

You'd develop a phobia about telephones?

[wychwood]

...No. As I had assumed would be obvious from my comment, my family don't talk to each other all that often. The reason I talk to them as much as I do is because I'm living in the same house, and if I no longer lived in the same house then I wouldn't see them as often. I certainly wouldn't phone home daily to speak to my mother, but I cook her dinner every night. Is that simple and straightforward enough for you?

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

duhhh, i gez so

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Define "talk". I talk to my dad pretty much constantly by email, have done since I first left home. I talk to him on the phone once or twice a week. I talk to my mom once every week or two. I generally get along better with my dad. Mom's a little harder.

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

I speak to my Mum and Sister on the phone at least once a week each usually. About the same for my Wife's folks (though less often for her sister strangely).

However, putting my sister and I in the same house for more than a couple of days at a time is asking for us to start getting seriously pissy at each other. Just too different. Some relationships are best kept at a distance...in this case about 1500 miles with the North sea in the middle.

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

I took "talk" literally, and just included times when I actually speak to my family (in person or on the phone). I email my mom more often than that, maybe once a week on average.

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

I love my parents and my sister very much, and always feel very warm towards them, but we live such different lives that the understanding gulf is ... vast. I am definitely the changeling in the family -- my priorities and goals are just so different that the gap between us is frequently insurmountable. It doesn't mean that I don't get on with them, but it does mean that they aren't my first thought of people to call up and/or spend time with.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I get along well with my father, and not so well with my mother. As a rule we're pretty distant, but we do love each other and I know I can rely on them.

Let's put it this way: I'm more confident that my parents would help me out in the instance of a total life disaster than that I could get through any 3 given conversations with them without arguing. Funny, huh?

[andrewducker]

That sounds to me like the very definition of family :->

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

I talk to my mother daily (used to be two or three times a week before Ann died) and to my sister about twice a month (although we text weekly). I speak to my father around twice a week, although right now he's coming down daily to work on my garage roof. My brother's still at school, so it's more like monthly with him. My mother and sister have probably spoken twice to my father in the past 10 years, and that would have been when Ann was ill, and then at the funeral. I speak to Ann's mother at least once a week, and made sure she got a mother's day card this year.