Do you enjoy spending time with family?
By loneraver
@loneraver (331)
October 25, 2009 5:59pm CST
Me and my family just seem to put up with each other as i commented in a previous discussion and we dont really spend any time together, we are around each other everyday but dont hardly talk, we dont even watch tv together do you enjoy spending time with yours? as at the moment i really dont! does this make me a bad person?
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7 responses
@crys7881 (249)
• United States
26 Oct 09
I do like to spend time with my family, my immediate family that is! My boyfriend and my two kids! I try to take time every day and just chill with them and talk or whatever. And we usually don't watch much TV together cause we like different things, but we do have a few shows that we all sit down and watch! I love my family =)
@loneraver (331)
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26 Oct 09
Sounds good. It just seems to me that as much as i love my family i dont enjoy their company does this sound awful? Maybe im just paranoid and things are more woderful than i think!
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@blondexkitty (42)
• United States
5 Nov 09
I love spending time with my family! We all interact very well together. We love to tease each other when we're happy and console each other when we're sad. My favorite thing that we do as a family is gather around the TV to watch The Jay Leno Show every night.
@loneraver (331)
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6 Nov 09
Id love to have that with my family, i just lodge at my mums and keep myself to myself! As long as i feed myself, got my digital tv and internet connection im happy i just plod along. Thanks for reply.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
i dont think that it makes you a bad person but i guess the head of the family must initiate for the family to follow. that house no longer sounds like a home it looks like a boarding place already. family inside but hardly talk and deos not sepnd too much time together. sounds like a boarding house to me.... well i guess people at a boarding house talks more then you guys do. if i am the head of that family i wont allow that to happen. i will make sure my family will all sit down and tell me whats wrong and make sure we eat together if everybody is at home. just my opinion.
i have a wife and a three year old son and we always stay together if possible. i am also the first born in my family so i make sure that my other siblings visits my mom as well. i make schedules so that we are all together and eat together at my mothers place.
@loneraver (331)
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26 Oct 09
It is a shame i cant remember the last time we ate together, some might say that im too old to be living at my mums again but its only temporary as things have gone a bit wrong, i always hoped i could rely on my family when times were hard. Thanks for your comment and fair play to you for keeping your family together as it seems a hard thing to do for some.
@mrdos910 (455)
• United States
26 Oct 09
I am currently in the position you are in with being around family, but not talking, etc. Right now my wife are going through a rough time as a couple and the arguing never ends it seems. My wife is very loud and is often verbally abusive towards me and the kids at times, so I usually go by myself to a solitary place. But when things are going well, I do enjoy doing things with the family such as movies, festivals, dining out, parties, family gatherings.
@loneraver (331)
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26 Oct 09
Its horrible when the only communication you have is in arguments isnt it, i hope things get better for you.
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@CRIVAS (1815)
• Canada
26 Oct 09
I am very sorry to hear that you don't have a very close relationship with your family. I have to say that I am the opposite. I talk on the phone with my mom several times a day, I visit her house at least once a week and we talk to eachother on facebook a lot too. I love my family. I have a husband and two children who mean the world to me. I would rather be spending time with them rather than doing anything else in the world. They are my life and without them, my life wouldn't have much meaning, I hope that one day you and your family can become close. I know that I would not be the person that I am today without my family. I think that it is hard for some people. especially if you don't get along. I hope things go better for you. Happy mylotting.
@loneraver (331)
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26 Oct 09
Thanks its nice to no that people do have it good with family, i think some of it comes down to the fact that we have always been quite poor and had to struggle through life scrimping and saving so times have been hard and i spose when we have really needed to pull together to get through we have. thanks for your comment.
@Anniejoy_20 (18)
• Philippines
26 Oct 09
hmp..as for me..realy i enjoyed spending time w/ my family..although im at work but still i feel their presence always..f we are in our home,,realy we spend time together..we have mny talks..and that for you we cant say it mkes u a bad person coz u never spend time w/ them but u have just mis interpreted your environment,infact your family are longing to be close w/ you evry moment its just your feeling..
@loneraver (331)
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26 Oct 09
We do spend alot of time together its just we dont interact and it just seems awkward im hoping things can change as im gonna start to put the effort in.
@workingmoms (195)
• Philippines
28 Feb 10
I really enjoy spending time with my family. There are times that I feel guilty when I go out with my friends and left them at home.
We sing and dance with our kids...
We make sure that we spend a lot of time with them now that they are still young..because we know someday they will have their on set of friends and spend more time hanging out..then have their own family.