I 've Come To Realize That Blood Doesn't Make A Family Stories of Experiences

First time I knew what a family was about. I was 11 years old and had to stay at a friends house for that first weekend and I saw the difference in how he was treated then how I was treated at my home
over the next few months I spent...

Looking back at the last three months of talking to my foster sisters, I've really come to the realization that we are more sisters than my biological siblings could ever be to me. We don't judge each other or use each other, we cry on...

I used to cry and cry sometimes because I couldn't understand why my mum was mean to me all the time. She suffers from depression and she drinks wayyy more than she should. I didn't know about her depression until last year. I thought...

I live across the country, a good 2,000 or so miles from my family (other than parents). And I don't feel close to them at all. I have acquaintances closer and more of a "family" to me than my own family. And of course, my best friend...

Well....I am blessed with my family.. I love them, they love me.. I just can see and feel this with those who are in wrong set of blood... They find, their belongingness from others...Organizations too are family... 

I've always known that blood doesn't make someone family. I have always been closer to the family that I choose then the family that I was stuck with.I have wanted anything to do with the sperm donor that created me since I was a...

I don't know almost all of my relatives. Most of them on my mother's side don't talk to us, anymore, and I don't even know my father, never mind all of the relatives on his side. I know my aunt and uncle, and they are really nice people...

I wonder how they came to this conclusion.

This only applies to my sister as she is my soul mate. One person does not make up a family that is for sure.

I may still have my mum but I have always had my issues with her that had carried...

So I want to tell you a story about a place called imvu it's a 3d chat room where you have custom avatar and facey rooms now I started playing in this chat room program when I was in 8th grade
I started to make friends and soon I...

My family has its issues. I'm not close with my brothers, likely because childhood wasn't the greatest. I have come to know my friends as family, the ones I can vent to, talk to for hours, get hugs from and know that I'm loved. My...

I have 4 sisters,3 brothers, 1 father, 1 mother, 5 aunts, 6 uncles, no cousins, 1 grandfather, 1 grandmother and 1 great grand mother. This is my family, well the family that I feel is my family. My mother, father, grandfather...

I am not related by blood to most of my cousins only by law but I am closser to them then I am to my Mom, brother or sister. There is nothing I wouldn't do for them, thats not to say I don't love my mom, brother or sister I do but I am...

Well I thought I had blood family but since I was kicked out of the family home I never heard from them since 1987.. Not even relatives.. Its sad cuz I have 3 grown sons who never met their grandparents or their relatives.

I noticed my the with people that i live with are not family. They are just another part of the world that I can't control. My friends treat me with respect, unlike them....

Growing up, I moved around a lot. I have been in four different school districts. I never actively tried to make friends because I was painfully shy and was bullied. Somehow, I always found friends. All of these friends were different...

Take note, this is a continued...
My mom met Papa when I was 7 while living with my Grandparents in Japan. Papa was a Marine stationed in Iwakuni who rode a pretty blue Harley my mom fell in love with. She was at a party with a coworker...

When I was little, we used to visit my grandfather in the town close to ours very often. All his children came to visit from time to time, we had family gatherings with all my aunts, uncles, and cousins. BUt... it all happened when my...

...Because blood ties do not stop relatives from completely betraying or even emotionally abusing their relatives. Now, if they were not my relatives I wouldn't care, but since we are related by blood that makes it harder to estrange...

I've got one brother who's a blood relative who I'd do anything for; he's my best friend and I trust him implicitly.

However, I've found that, over the years, I've gathered several women friends who treat me like a brother, and I treat...

No it doesn't. I was never close with my family members, not even when I was a kid. I always thought that people who looked like you, had the same genes, were the only people who you could really call family, but I was wrong. I have...