Weekend Chat: Family Quirks

[janually]

Happy Sunday, folks! I hope you're having a beautiful day in your neck of the woods. I know I am. It's finally raining, yay!

Community Happenings: Fanfiction
Masquerade*** by pockyphoto
Reason - Chapter 18*** by serenitytouched
Seeking Rin - Chapter Five*** and Chapter Six* by skylar_inari
Broken Pieces - Chapter Five*** by nimblnymph
Reflection*** by juniper_11
To Write Love On Her Arms - Chapter Three* by edellin

Comments

[saphri]

Oh dear god... you want me to tell you about my family?! haha! I'll do my best

[serenitytouched]

Mother-in-law really does sound amazing. For me it's hard to say anything that's wrong or broken, cause I don't want any help. Makes me feel bad usually, but I've seen people like her who are very quick to help out no matter what once they find out. They ooze with such kindness. @_@

[edellin]

Your family sounds very nice... very happy in a way! I am glad for you (although I can't really express it right now because of feeling a bit down)

Your mom especially sound so reliable! And your husband too! You must love him very much! XD

[saphri]

I do love my husband, I guess I wouldn't have married him otherwise, lol.

But he's a grumpy sod at times. He likes to growl at things that don't play to the rules, like, literally, growl at them. Sometimes he growls so hard he sounds a bit like a moterbike :/

[juniper_11]

Yeesh. Where do I start

[serenitytouched]

-eeks at your older sister and husband- Well, at least they'll help out if they can. -_-;

What I wouldn't give to have a person to finish my rantage so I can take a breath. -amazed-

[serenitytouched]

Oh! So official grats to Fable Winners. I don't think I've even said it yet xD -does so now- All the entries were so awesome.

Oh man at the yelling at inanimate objects. I tend to grumble at them when they burn my toast. T_T

I've always wondered what it would be like to have sisters. xD

Family... Um. I'm an only child. My dad is so old people think he's my grandfather. We don't have a great relationship for various reasons, but I struggle to talk to him. It's not that I hold a grudge or anything towards him, but it's just kind of hard with... um various situations happening. To me, he is my only family. So.. I'm trying really hard to not just... cut the thin tie between us. He's all I got.

My mother isn't a good subject. -avoids that-I don't have any relatives on my dad's side. My mom's, they don't talk to me and I've never met them except when I was too young to remember

[missyquill]

*hugs* Not to get you down hun but I know what you mean about not knowing how to talk to your dad. I have a similar problem with mine. He just never bothered when I was younger and then I never bothered when I was a teen. And now its really hard to strike up a conversation with a person you live in the same house with.

[serenitytouched]

-gladly accepts hugs- Yes! that's the exact same thing with me. It's so dead on it's unbelievable. Well Im glad in a werid (and tragic) way Im not the only one.

[edellin]

That's actually in a way what's going one with me and my dad... but a tiny bit more complicated...

[missyquill]

My family! Oh man, that's a whole truckload of worms

[serenitytouched]

I always think about like how it would be tough to see the same person (siblings) everywhere from home to school and anywhere else in between. I've been living with my bf for three years and I kind of getting tired of him sometimes lol. -_- I'm used to being alone, so it's kind of a new thing for me.

I'm glad you have a wonderful brother (even if an idiot). xD

[nerocorleone]

I always wonder why it is that siblings don't get along. Me and my brother are rahter close age-wise but get along perfectly. We had our differences in our teenager-years, but now he's one of my bestest friends.
I suppose it's different being two girls...

Is your brother younger or older?

[missyquill]

My parents decided to get the baby thing over with real quick and as a result, I'm the oldest, than my sister is a year younger and my brother a year younger than her. So we're all really close in age.

And yes, being two girls locked in the same room/house/school/class really did it for us until we couldn't stand to breathe the same air as the other. My brother on the other hand had his own room, his gang of guy friends (that I got along awesomely with) and therefore always my buddy. Also helped that he liked manga/anime. We used to watch Pokemon together waaaay back. And he introduced me to Naruto.

[edellin]

My family... well... I am the elder child out of three children. I have s younger sister and a younger brother. We are not especially close... we love each other a lot (I believe) but generally there is a sort of dysfunctionality in my family that makes many things difficult for us in general

[serenitytouched]

I've seen through myself and a few friends around me how there's no such thing as a perfect family. I want it to be true and I question if it really exists or if something that's rare like a unicorn.

I am glad to read though through these posts on the topic so far that there is a lot of good mixed in with bad. For myself, I just want to kind of not let the negatives shake me down, you know?

I think this topic has opened up a lot of things unintentionally and I like serious/honest topics. I think that's great a game helped you laugh. I don't know why, but laughing just helps so much you know? It's why I love comedy and just being able to joke sometimes. Just helps so much. xD

[edellin]

Of course there's not! And even if some families seem better from afar, when you get close you see cracks in that perfection... and that;s because we are human. But I guess some families' problems are less intense... or more balanced perhaps.

Well as I said above... I didn't exactly do that... I've ended up trying to overanalyze eveything in my life, every moment, relationship and person I know so I just won't feel but think so there is no intensity... if that makes sense... I also became very selfish, self-abdorbed and ended up believing in God more than I would before perhaps. But I guess that my love for God is a sign that I want the bad thinsg to not affect me so much and just focus on the good things that are to come! XD

Yeah! Laughing makes everything better! I honestly agree!

[serenitytouched]

Yes, def. People are human and they have faults, so it's impossible to be perfect. I agree that being balanced is probably what I see a lot to appear more on the normal vs dysfunctional side.

I find myself thinking about past relationships and what I could have done to make it better (suddenly begins thinking about ex's), but! -likes to think of past relationships to stepping stones of finding something greater-

Lol, well hey, no matter what you got to do--long as you focus on the good that's all anyone should ask for.

What's that saying about lemonade? Life... gives you lemons make lemonade? I have so much lemonade I need to start sharing. xD