your family

Of course you have the right to hate your family. Not that I would recommend hating anyone. Hate hurts you more than it does the person you hate. But, I think we hate people based on how they treat us. If our family treats us badly, it makes sense that we would hate them.

Today we use words like love and hate without regard to the real meaning of the words. I believe that real hate does not happen as often as we think. Hating or disliking our family is not about our rights its about how we feel and what has been done to us. Just because we were born into a family doesn't make it automatic that we are loved or that the family in question is loved back. If that were the case there wouldn't be so much abuse in the world. As a Christian I do believe in forgivness and thru the love of God we can then be able to forgive and love those that have wronged us.

My parental family and my own family are part and parcel of my life. I feel miserable to even think without them. If any one hates family so much, could be due to terrible injustice done to that person. You have to see from that angle. There are brothers and sisters sometime cheat one or several family members by snatching all the part and parcel of the property and money making one person pauper.

I think most people who think they hate, don't really. I've heard it said that there is a fine line between love and hate. Sometimes loving families is hard. It's harder if they aren't supportive. Sometimes the people that are the closest to us, are the very ones that can (and sometimes do) hurt us the most.

well, let's not forget that every family is different. Maybe something terrible happened within his family, and now the relationship between him and his family is severed.

He would have his own reasons for the way he feels.. but yep "HATE" is a harsh word for it.. I despise/loath,dislike my DAD for who/what he is.. Id never hate him. Just be there for your friend no matter what.

Fisrtly, I think that hate is a very awful word and perhaps too strong an emotion. It is always a word that we have never used in our house, simply because of the concept that we should not hate and so we used the term "intensely dislike". Yes I do think it is possible to dislike your own family intensely, irrespective of the blood relationship. It might be that a person has been hurt many times and it makes them bitter, they might not have been treated as favourably as other siblings, or they might have contravened a moral code that you live by. There are many things that can cause a person to have an intense dislike of their own flesh and blood. My late Dad used to say, when anyone in the family was in dispute, that blood was the only real tie between us and we were all individuals, so it could be possible that we would not like each other. He only ever asked that if we met, it was in peace and we were civil to each other, then we could retire to separate parts of the house/room if we chose. This was when we were adults, and what he said did make sense to me then, as it does now. In answer to the question you raised, some people can be hurt so badly by another member of their family that they will dislike them intensely and so prefer not to have any contact with them.

Blood is thicker than water or so they say, but I think that peopel can only be pushed so far. For example, if your brother murdered your father, would you still love your father? Or if your father molested your sister would you still love him? How far is too far? Every indivdual has their own personal limits. I think a lot of it has to do with being unable to forgive, rather than no longer loving...

Yes, I do think people can really not like their family.There may have been something that the family or family member had done that was unforgivable to that person.My hubby is disgustided by his bio dad because of the things he has done to him and his family.

Maybe because he has difficult and hard conflict with his family But eventhough that happen, I think it better o say it hinest with his family and try to solve the problem together than become an enemy