Which would be harder for you to handle?

I agree that most people need to feel the connection with their biological families and for those who do not have that option that is where their friends become their extended family and there are many people like this. Either way we all need to have some special people in our lives.

I will choose my family and yet i don't have any friends.... It's because Your Family Is also your bestfriend... The Family will love you ,support you ,care for you.. But friends are only there if you are wealthy and popular and when you have nothing left.. They will leave you.... I guess so

I would always choose my family. Having friends is nice but going home to someone is even nicer.

I think like you I would be lost completely with out family around me all of the time. I do love my friends and many are just like family, but its not the same I don't think like flesh and blood. Still having said that I do have friends that have no blood relatives and they are single to boot and do just fine. They adapt to their lives and make their own happiness. We really have to be content with ourselves first and be able to live with what ever our lot in life is.

WOW! Now, that is a hard question! Generally speaking, I am much closer to my friends (which I consider the family I got to choose) then I am to my family. And, I don't have a need to feel biologically connected to anyone. However, given the bond I have with my children, a bond I could never come close to with anyone else, a bond started nearly from conception... I would have to go with family over friendship, for my kids alone. Otherwise, if I wouldn't have had children either way for instance, I would take friends over family members in a heart beat.

in my opinion i would choose my family , for me there is nothing like family love, even though sometimes there annoying lol but blood is thicker then water some say right! on another note i find that sometimes the love i share with my family is similar to having a close friend!

Well I don't have to imagine that at all, as I have no family.. I was passed from one foster home to the next until I left at the age of 12, so the only thing I do have is friends..It is not so bad not having family, I have managed for quite a few years :-)

Well, I know about how this feels somewhat since I have no friends except what I can count here at Mylot and I can tell you that it is depressing most times. It is a little like not having family to turn to in the times of need which is how I felt when my family moved to New mexico leaving me here in Kentucky. I felt that I had no one to turn to or help me in times of need and it was very distressing knowing that they weren't just down the road or a few hours away but 3-4 days by car. You get very emotion when you feel all alone. I had my husband yeah but he isn't their for me emotionally like my mom always was. Lucky for me before I went insane my family moved back a year and a half later because my dad broke his hip and my mom needed help and I was basically the only one out of 8 kids that she can rely on to help her when she needs it. I am the same I would need to feel as though I am not alone and connected to family or I would feel a drift cause as much as you like or love your friends they can only be so close and they also come and go and some friends feel uncomfortable or unable to give the connection sometimes needed to see you through hard times and emtional ones.

Would be awful not to have family have to be connected somewheres. but need my friends too hugs

Well I think being totally alone when you don't want to is the hardest thing to live through. A family doesn't have to be blood related. In fact there are many people who can't connect with the family they were born into but have very good friends they call family. As long as you are not alone.

I know what you mean. One of my best friend's was adoted at the age of 6 weeks and she could not wait to have a child of her own. He is the only one that she knows who is biologically related to her. There is no information to help her find her real family. But at the same time, friends are the family that we choose. So we may prefer them over some family members who we simply got stuck with.

Without a doubt it would be harder to not have family. I am a huge family person.

I also would feel bad not having my family around as since childhood we have been raced to be in a close knit family until now. I can always add up friends and we would always have a life of our own but family will always be there whoever you are, whatever you become, when you are in need, no matter what situation you are in, they are always there for you to lean on. « Gab »

It would be much harder for me not to have my family. I know that my family loves and cares about me no matter what - unconditional love. Friends can come and go...they move, get married, decide you did something wrong, but family is forever. I can go out and make new friends, but could never replace my family.

My family is very close. The people in my family are my best friends. I would choose them over friends and not think twice about it. I have one sister that is 2 years younger and a brother that is 4 years younger. We all live in different states. There is hardly a day that goes by that I don't talk to my sister. My brother is in Iraq. Do you know that he just sent ME a package? We send him care packages; my whole family does. But to get a package from him while he is in Iraq means a lot to me. I can't imagine not having my family.

I suppose I am sorta one of those. I have my family...well my sister and my mother. I don't see them much, but I know they love me. I have some people I talk to here and there, but no real friends. I have been burnt so much I just don't bother to reach out to people anymore.

I am blessed with a fairly close family. We love, comfort, and protect each other. Plus when you add my kids in the mix, I wouldn't trade them for the world. I have had to chose between my family and friends before, and I've always chosen my family. Some of them I even concider to be my best friends. I've always like the phrase, "blood is thicker than water." I chose m friends, with all my imperfections, but God placed me with my family. He knows me and them better than we know ourselves. I trust His judgement more than mine, so I'll always stick close to my family.

I would be totally lost without family. My family is important to me. Others may not view family the same way, that's fine too. I feel that my friends are my "chosen" family members, which makes them special as well. There are some who could care less about their families, I would think that when it comes down to things, that they would feel sad about not having any biological connections left. Maybe it's not so much about biology. It could just be the way you hold people in your heart.

I was adopted at the age of 5, my new parents were very abusive so i left home early and have gone without a family ever since. It is really hard going through life on your own with no one to fall back on for support at times when you cant go to your friends. Thats why it is important for me to have my friends around otherwise i dont know if i would have made it through life this far, i always long for that bond that a mother has with its child, its only natural. So i have gone without and dont really know any different so i think that having a few true friend is really important.

Friends in an individuals life play considerable amount of importance.At the same time, a family is much more needed for a person to live.Man is described to be a social animal and hence he can not live without communicating and interacting. These 2 aspects i.e family and friends are more complimentary rather than comparitive. Hence they both are equally required for an individual to live and prosper.