Family Relationships

Hi! I think there's no such thing as a perfect family unit, much more a perfect relationship with other close relatives. My family alone is very chaotic because we have different religions in the house, so we would always have issues when I was still younger. When I got older (as well as my siblings), we have tried to resolve all the differences among family members and have learned to co-exist. I think it's just about either trying one's best to resolve things, or just being numb about the situation. As far as other relations are concerned, we are just civil to each other because we have also learned that there's no point in arguing (which we would also do in the past). Rivalries and jealousies may still exist, but I just took all of them with a grain of salt. In the end, it's still gonna be us that's gonna be helping each other out, or gonna be together in times of crisis.

Well for me it's wierd. I mean I have a wonderful family and we all have our arguments, but we get along fine. On my mother's side it is great veryone gets along, we celebrate holidays, make weekend visits. On my dads side, it sems nobody gets along, everybody argues, everybody hates eachother. It's weird

I have a big happy family and our relationship are good and in good bond.I am thankful for the parents i have because they are the one who really teach us to have a good relationship for us their childrens.

Sorry for your misadventures, but they are things happen in many families. How ever it's very important that you have a good relationship with your parents, it's more important than the relationship with cousins, uncles and aunts. I wanna mean that the relationship with every relative is very important, but that one with our parents is more important. Unfortunately I never had a good relationship with my parents. Only now that I have a little child I'm winning my parents' love again, because my son loves to stay with them and I often take him to them and so me too I stay with them. Children are magic.

My family relationship is...dysfunctional. But then I guess the question I have is whose is not? My mom and I get along wonderfully, she is so awesome, but she is also disabled, and in a wheelchair. She wasn't like that my whole life, so it was really hard to adjust to as I got into my later teens. However, I thought we could get through it, just make some adjustments in our lives. Next thing we find out is my brother has bipolar disorder along with Asperger's Syndrome. So in addition to having a disabled mother that I now had to help out with a lot more things, we had my brother and his mental problems to work with. I love my family more than anything, don't get me wrong, but my mom cannot handle my brother, and she needs help herself, so at a time in my life where I should be heading off to college, I am home with them, taking online classes, with not much time to socialize at all, taking care of them. Sometimes I feel resentful of this, even though I know I shouldnt. I feel selfish sometimes because I just want to get out there and go to college with everyone else. However, those two are the only real family I have, and I love them very much. I think that we are all going to have to make compromises and they might very well have to accept more responsibility and take on more so that I can accomplish my goals as well, sometimes I just hope that we will make it, that everything will turn out okay.