A family question

some are and some aren;t...like my relationship with my mom is horrible, i feel like i am a different person around her, i have to walk on eggshells around her. but my relationship with my sister and brother are wonderful, i can tell them almost anything and they never judge me.

Yes. They are easier to deal with as far as honesty is concerned. I can tell a family member exactly what I think, where as a friend my want to get upset about. Family you try not to cause you family. However, your stuck with them for life. Friends act like jerks, you dump them. Family acts like jerks, you have to see them every Christmas anyways. So IMO the stuck with part tends to make things more complicated.

Some famiy members just came seem to get along, I have this sister that thinks she knows everything. I have a brother-in-law that thinks he know everything, they both irritate me.

Oh you bet they are! A lot depends on if you are from a truely loving family or a disfunctional family. That makes all of the difference in the world. My family is truely a loving one and we manage to get through anything that comes our way, but I just can't see how a disfunctional family could ever do that? No matter what, my family knows that we are there for each other, but I have known families that haven't talked for 20 or 30 years and never were close! How could you ever depend on each other? How would you even know if they loved you or not? It is hard for me to understand how you could be family, of the same blood, and not love each other? But I guess it happens. Complicated doesn't even discribe that kind of a family relationship, I don't think there is a word for it?

There are always complications in any relationships. Family is family and you deal with it or not. I have a friend who doesn't speak to any of her siblings or her mother. This sad. I have differences of opinion with my children, siblings, and my mother. This does not stop me from loving them or wanting to be a part of their lives. WE are all HUMAN beings and we are all different. But we are all the same in that we need love and acceptance.

Not so much complicated, just that we do not keep in touch with each other. All of my family, I mean brothers and sisters, live in Dublin and I am living in Kildare. I was always the one to pick up the phone and ring them, but they never bothered to phone me. Just one brother and one sister come to visit me and I also visit them. The others expect me to travel to Dublin to visit them, but I told them that the road runs in both directions. However, if I had any sort of problems, they would be the first to help out.

Well relationship has a certain boundary attached to it. Its if anyone crosses those in any relationship, be it family or friends or any other the relationship becomes complicated. Hope this answers your question in just few lines but with deep meannings in them.