Do you like your family?

There oh dear

The only member of my family I could relate to was my Maternal Grandmother. I really didn't like the rest of my biological family.

I love them but they can smother me. I had to fight for my introverted alone time as a teen.

I’m very close with my immediate family but things are weird and distant with my extended family. I would love for us to be closer but my parents families hated each other and neither approved of their marriage so they kind of took it out on us kids and shunned us. I’m not close with my biological father either because he abandoned us. I tried to establish a relationship ship with him as an adult but he’s always remained distant.

Nope. My parents and oldest sister were great, but they're long gone. I have no contact with my remaining 3 siblings, except for a nephew, his wife, and their kids. Am close with my partners siblings, despite their thick accents.

Yes but they can be aggravating, as most people can.

i can love some of them. the rest canrot in hell.

I have two older bothers and like them both but I do get on with the oldest one somewhat better as we agree on more. His wife is great too. Other partner's wife is nice too. Partner likes both him and his wife, in fact him and my oldest brothers wife have become firm friends.

Both my parents have passed, mum was easy to love (and a terrific mother, couldnt fault her. Dad was difficult, but I got on with him better as I matured and understood why he was they way he was better

Rest of my family are on the other side of the world, so dont see much of them, I get on with them well when I do though

Love many and loathe a few of them.

Immediate family (including nephews, nieces and their partners) ?

Yes

Distant family (first cousins’s, their spouses, second cousins, etc.)

Who?

My family was very homophobic and enjoyed nothing more than making me beg for their approval, which I never got. I had to leave them behind. No regrets.

Do I like my family? I didn’t speak to my father for seven years, and then he died. Oh well.

I was close with my mom. Taking care of her in her final years was the most worthwhile thing I’ve ever done.

My sister and I got along while our mom was alive, but once she died, there wasn’t much left between us. Mom was the glue.

Now? My sister’s a faded beauty, a narcissist with man issues. She calls me drunk late at night to tell me what plastic surgery she’s thinking about getting, and I just can’t deal with it - so I don’t.

Technically, she’s the only family I have left. But do I like my family aka sister? No. Not really.

Nope

They are AOK. No complaints. I suppose I love all of them. I pity people who don't have likeable families. Maybe it's random. Sad.

Loving and liking are different things and especially applies to family.

I love my parents but they did not make my life easy. I forgave them, they are older now and, for different reasons, present another type of struggle (old age). I do love my sister and we get along better now than before, we are friends.

I probably wouldn’t like any of them if i met them as a stranger (and vice-versa).

Yes, I love my large Catholic, German/Polish family dearly. Do I always agree with them? No. Do we argue occasionally? Yes. Were there painful memories and situations in the past? Definitely. It's part of being a family. Yes, I totally understand that this is not everyone's experience - but the OP asked, so I answered!

Yes, I like two of my three sibs. The one I don't like is a sniveling, thin-skinned, SPOILED (and DUMB) ass hole.

My parents are dead. My mother was cold, nervous, judgmental, and impossible to please on the inside, under the smiling, kindly exterior. Age and then Alzheimer's exaggerated all her worst qualities by ten-fold. My father and I were worlds apart in everything but age relaxed the man and as adults we came to have a very nice relationship. I have two much older siblings, one of whom is still alive but in his early 80s and in somewhat frail health. We had little in common including time spent under the same roof, but he is in essence a kindly man and we always got on well. Both of my siblings and their families had me at a disadvantage in settling my parents' estate. Had we not gone through this, I would have better relations with my one brother and the family of my deceased sibling.

I was always the different one in the family, the one itching to move far away, to go to university, to move a out and travel and live oceans away. The valuable things I learned in life were more despite than because if my family.

I liked my family, barely, and my father especially if only because we came to be close late in life, something neither of us had expected, and we recognized done elemental similarities of character. I don't have any regret about not being closer with the rest of them because it would have meant being different people on my part or theirs.

Because mine were a mostly cold and suspicious lot, I have always be fascinated by loud, gregarious, crazy, fractious, loving families for having some blood in their veins, different as those families and their members may differ from my own experience.

I do now. I hated my mother and siblings as a child. I remember thinking at one point that my mother could drop dead and I wouldn't care Thank God I no longer feel that way.

Well I suppose if your family loved you, you would love them.

I don't like my white trash family.

nope- and do furthermore do not trust them an inch. I sometimes think biological DNA trickery was involved.

If we weren’t related I wouldn’t have anything to do with any of them. I maintain contact and go through the motions out of obligation.

R23 I was like that but at some point u have to wonder why when there's little ROI.