I Am Not Very Close With My Relatives

I don't really like them. My grandma's brother and his family are insanely orthodox jews, they follow everything the rabbi says *to the letter* and don't use electricity on Saturdays because they're nutcases, that's why. I like my...

I grew up in a family in which the paternal side was full of high achievers.  I'm close with my mom and dad, and for a long time with my oldest brother, but our closeness came to an end a long time ago when he got married.  My...

i never really new my family nor did i care too i usually stay with my mom and grandma but my grandmother gets on my ever loving nerves and my father and i hardly talk he calls me i don't care to answer my phone cause he says he's...

My parents have nothing to do with me. Long story really but suffice it to say that when I stopped forcing myself on them with visits and phone calls, there was NO contact at all between us. It showed me that they really...

I've never been close to any of my family members except for my grandpa, gramma, mom and dad. A few cousins too. With everyone else I just feel extremely awkward around... I don't even consider them to be my family. They are just like...

This is an excerpt of the letter my mom sent me yesterday. Mind you, it may not seem like such a big deal to you, but when she does this ALL THE TIME via snail mail, email (sent to my spam account, of course) or tells me on the phone...

This is a really Yes and No answer.  First let me start I do love my family, BUT my family puts the D in Dysfunctional.  My mom named all the kids starting with a D, I guess she knew that we would all be Dysfunctional, My...

I'm not close with my relatives for a few reasons.
1.  I am not like any of them.  I don't think like them and I don't live my life like them.  I don't have the same interest as them. 
2.  I don't want drama...

It seems that I was isolated from most of my relatives when I was growing up. I had my aunt and uncle who lived nearby and 3 cousins. I met a number of relatives but we sort of lived differently or so I imagined and they didn't visit...

My family rejects me because of my dark skin. I know this because when I was a little girl I overheard my family talking about me. I thought family was suppose to love, support, and accept you. I thought wrong. What is it about dark...

We grew apart when we moved out of town to the farm. We had to learn to build up new relationships at a very tender age.
Being a last born, this has made my life a bit harder because my siblings have their own families now, and I dont...

Relatives are merely people you are related to. Family are the people you unconditionally love and they unconditionally love you back--with open communication and without serious judgment. My family is my mother and children.

I have very vague memories about my family. It's weird because at the occasional "family parties" I can't match names with faces. These parties usually end with fist fights, or drunken arguments.
I guess this act of distancing...

I haven't met most of my relatives. I've only heard about most of them. And I haven't seen most of the ones I have met since I was a kid. I haven't even met my grandmother. I also haven't seen most of my cousins in ages. I have a half...

I don't know their birthdays, I don't know whose children are whose in terms of cousins I haven't even met half of them the ones I have met I don't have anything to talk about. Some don't even speak te same language I do and some...

I probably should be grateful for all that my parents have given me, but somehow I'm not. I mean they did give me food, shelter, a car that I could use, some extras like computer, walkman and a few other things for fun while I was...

cause I hardly every see them,and when I do its kind of a big deal and we do all the hugs and stuff,but I seen them on christmas I went to my aunts house(and tons of people weer there)(and everyone asks how your doing and what do you do...

That story is actually a short one!
I know I got somewhere uncle aunt cousins but I never actually saw them!
My father...better..sperm donor ....is out of my life since I was 10 and my birth mother the same!u
And there is no need that...

I feel like I don't belong in my family. I just went to a wedding recently and I noticed that all my aunts were dancing with one of my cousins, linking arms, hugging, and I know that it would just be weird for me to do that. I...

my relatives lives pretty close to me and yet no of them talk to me send me messages or even say hi, when i ask them what they are doing for the weekend or any question that might result in me getting to know hem better i get told the...