If you weren’t related to them, would you socialize with your family? For the most part, I have nothing in common with my immediate family, so I doubt we’d socialize.
Other than my sister, no.
Oh hell yeah. They’re smart, funny, and generally good cook. What more could I ask for in friends?
God no. I moved away from them all as soon as I could (17) and I only actively keep in touch with my Dad. They’re all batshit crazy. Dad unfortunately appears to be addicted to the crazy and has remarried a woman who is quite possibly more nuts than Mom was.
No.
Sweet Jeebus, no. I’m barely in touch with my own father as it is, and would prefer never to hear my mother’s voice again. I’m kind of a clear-cut case.
Good question! I’d love to, but I don’t know if it’d occur to me. BIL probably, sis probably. Bro? That’d be kind of weird, because he’s so much like me.
Gracious, no. My brother is a ridiculous hick, my sister is a lazy childish pig, and my parents (although perfectly nice, kind people) are a little too churchy for me. Not really my kind of crowd.
Maybe my step-dad, my aunt, and my grandmother. Everyone else is just too damn nuts.
Not my parents, but my sister, my aunt and uncle and cousins. That’s pretty much the extent of my family.
I enjoy their company, and believe the feeling’s mutual. However, my cousins party rather a lot, and I don’t at all so friendship might not flow so easily, unless they needed a designated driver. We always laugh a lot when we’re together.
Sad to say, but two of my sisters I would be friends with no matter what. The rest of them, no. I would not have them in my life. One of them I would actively avoid now even as a sibling if I could do it without family drama.
My family is pretty much just my brother and his wife. We all get along quite well, so I’d be happy to have them as friends.
Heh. I don’t socialize with them at all, and we ARE family. So no.
No way. My mother is an overbearing, witnessing high-maintainance invidual. My dad, unfortunately, doesn’t exist without her. And that leaves my aunt who, I suppose, would be the only one who isn’t too crazy to deal with.
No. I have absolutely nothing in common with them. I’d probably dislike them.
My mom and sister could be friends with each other though.
Sure, apart from my annoying aunt and uncle. (Assuming I had met them, of course; to be honest, I don’t know that I would be likely to cross paths with people my parents’ age if they weren’t my parents and we didn’t work together.)
My dad, I probably would not have socialized with. I probably would have thought he was terrifying and, if I hadn’t had to live with him, would have avoided him as much as possible. We got along very well at times, but that was because he was my dad and I couldn’t choose not to interact with him. If I just knew him in passing, I probably would not put in the effort to get past the worse traits in order to enjoy the better ones.
I probably wouldn’t too much with my mom, even if we were the same age. We would probably get along okay if we were co-workers or something, but I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to befriend her. She’s nice enough- we just don’t have that much in common.
My next-younger sister, I would avoid at all costs. She would be that nasty fake-ass bitch I know. If we were forced to interact, like if we were co-workers, she’d probably be the nasty fake-ass bitch I tolerate.
My youngest sister and I would probably get along quite well and may well be friends. We’re into different things, but we get along well as it is and I quite like her as a person.
My mother and father, no. They are very little like me. We have very little to talk about even at family gatherings.
My sister and I would likely be friendly acquaintances.
Some of my cousins and I would probably run in the same crowd.
I like my family.
You folks are really upsetting.
Probably not. I’m a quiet liberal in a sea of very vocal conservatives. Even my brother, who I consider myself quite close to, probably wouldn’t be any more interested in hanging out with me than I’d want to hang out with him.