# Would you be friends with your family? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-friends-with-your-family/568122 "2011-01-18T21:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-friends-with-your-family/568122/41 "2011-01-19T17:32:45Z")
My remaining family consists of five cousins, all of whom I am on good terms with, but I have little in common with them. I do love them, but I can’t say we would be friends. My brother-in-law is _the man_. I can’t say enough about him. He’s great. His dad is great too. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-friends-with-your-family/568122/42 "2011-01-19T17:43:17Z")
If I didn’t already know my sister, no. We get along great and are very close, but are very different and have very different worldviews. I can’t imagine if we’d met on the street somehow that we’d be friends. As for the rest of my family, oh hell no. That’s why I live 1,000 miles away! ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-friends-with-your-family/568122/43 "2011-01-19T17:44:56Z")
My two brothers are the closest friends I have aside from my wife. One was on my softball team for years, and I played in bands with the other for decades. My daughter and I could be friends. We enjoy a lot of the same books, music and food. It’s really only my brothers who pass the test, though. If I had run into them through softball and music without being related to them, they would have become close friends. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-friends-with-your-family/568122/44 "2011-01-19T17:45:20Z")
Assuming I knew they existed (I live in different states from my brother & sister, and a different continent from my parents), absolutely. I would probably find the things I find annoying about my dad much less so if he weren’t my dad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-friends-with-your-family/568122.md?page=2)