What does your family mean to you?+poll

[the_fizz]

[center][COLOR=seagreen][b][i]I hope that this has not been done before.[/i][/b][/COLOR][/center]
[COLOR=royalblue]However, while I was doing another post I started to realize what my family means to me. Therefore, I was wondering:

[center][color=darkred][b]What does your family mean to you?[/b][/color][/center]

My family means to mean someone to love, hate, and support me thru all the good, bad, and ugly things in this world and in my life.

[b]Love[/b] is one of the most important thing my family does right. We love one another thru everything. We could be a hundred miles apart and we still find time to spend together.

We also fight like cats and dogs (which is the [b]Hate[/b] part)! We never seem to be at peace sometime. Like with my mother we rarely get along, but I love her and would die if she was not around for me.

I also know that no matter how messed up I get in life that they will always be ther for me in my time of need.[b](Support)[/b]

I know that some people are luckier then some and some are not so lucky, once again, I wonder what it is like for others out there.

So tell me about your family.
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[I, Colossus]

[color=#006699]I put [b]Love[/b] and [b]Support[/b] too. Even though a fair amount of short-lived hate goes around every now and then, for the most part we are a frequently functional family.

There is unconditional love at all times, after an arguement I could say "I love you" and get the same thing back. But we still are actually at eachothers throats, it's just something we do to keep from stabbing eachother. I don't get hit, like some of my friends, although my Dad did slap me once. :p I was mad that my friends couldn't crash at the house ( I was 8 ) and I stuck my tongue out at him. Bad move, lol, he ended up making me bite my tongue.

But, overall I get all the love and support I need.[/color]

[Amity]

I love my family, or what's left of it anyway. Sometimes my sister and myself can fight, but we are family no matter what. We do support eachother at times and we also say nothing at all to eachother. We're opposites, and I think that the only true thing we have in common is we both love anime. We also loove some of the people around us. Like her boyfriend for instance. I'm not totally sure I can love my boyfriend too much, but I do care about him. We are sisters, we have our moments, but we still love eachother and that's what counts. We hardly let eachother know how much we care, but we know in our hearts, we feel the same way. So I love my sister and I also support her in most of her decisions...

[KarmaOfChaos]

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I've had bad relationships with my immediate family for a long time. I hold a lot of bitter resentment against them for what they've done, and the there's a great part of me that refuses to forgive them. I know it's wrong of me to hold this against them, to be so angry, but it is an emotion I cannot help but feel. However, I'd rather be honest about how I feel now, and not shove it inside, so that as time goes on I'll be able to come to terms with it.

My other relatives, however, have been my life support. My second family is in California, with my aunt. I wouldn't have made it this far without her love.

So I suppose a family can make you and break you. One family member's kind words can make you feel absolutely wonderful, and in the same stroke another member can tear you to shreads, and destroy your self-esteem.

In the end, it comes down to the individual, not the family as a whole. Although granted, there are certain ties that blood and living with people create, thoses ties can also be broken, if the hatred is strong enough. I try to stay as close as possible to the people I love in my family, like my aunt, grandmother, and brother, and in time I believe I will come to love, if not trust, my parents again. Maybe someday we'll be a whole family again, but right now, I'm happy with what I have.

-Karma
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[InuyashaDeamon]

I've my family just that it not the true love. They are there for support mainly people to fall back to when it gets to be too rough or have no idea of what to do next. The give you really only emotional support and advice nothing more.

[Artemis]

I think I'm very lucky to have a family like mine. It's big, but that only multiplies the love rather than divided it. (rants: I can't stand it when people think that you can't love many children as much as you can love one. The only difference is material blessings...) Ok, got that out of my system... :D
Anyway, everyone in family loves each other. We may have bad days and be angry, but when it comes down to it, it's unconditional love. (the only exception is my sister--the second oldest--who apparently thinks that the rest of us hate her. She pushes our parents away from her and feels like she has to live up to me. She causes a lot of problems, but we all love her anyway.)
It makes me really sad when I think about people who don't have good family relationships. :( No matter what, these people are still your family. Family [i]should[/i] mean love and support.
~art~

[Fall]

"Hate" is a very strong word. aswell is "Love". Though I'm going to stick by me saying "hate" is so strong, as there's alot of it in my family.

The family in my household at the moment, is very hectic, sometimes just hate all together. Not everyone gets on with everyone, and I have to say, I don't get along with alot of people. This is including people in my family, in my household. I'm having a hard time at the moment getting along with my two brothers, and I've always argued forever and tomorrow with my father. My mother, I hardly ever see, though when I do, it's never with anyone else in my family, she's probably the only person in my family I like to a certain extent -we have alot in common when compared.

Support ain't a very big role in my family, there's been alot of backstabbing and so on. I'm not getting into that.

At the same time, there's some love, though not very much of it. A rare sight to see, I often have to feel it or even immagine it.

My family used to be something I could come home to. Now, I don't want to come home to it.

[Pagan]

I hate my family. My parents are hardly never home and leave me to take care of my lazy sisters. My Mom has cancer so she has a reason for not being home but my dad jumps on every buisiness trip aviable just to get away from the house.

[Shinmaru]

My family can be a tad dysfunctional at times (as anyone who has been in a chat with my sister and I can attest to lol), but, for the most part, we get along just fine.

The only problem within my family right now is my brother, whom seems to be going through the angry teenager phase that I went through and my sister is passing out of. My brother starts arguments with the most inane subjects and his basic retaliation is "SHUT UP!" I've learned to ignore it...if only my sister could learn to ignore it. lol

Other than that, my family is good. They support me through whatever choices I make, whether they be good or bad (and I've made some really bad decisions in my life, heh). But, most of all, my family wants me to do well in my life and they're very proud when they see me do well, which makes me feel pretty good.

So, yeah, love and support. Whee.

[Fyxe]

[size=1][color=darkblue]I love my family very much. They are there for me and I don't know what I would do if they were just all of the sudden.... gone. Sure, I might not like some people as much as others, but we still get along okay. The only person I really hate in my family is my step father.
We have bad and good days, but doesn't everyone?
I may be seperated from part of my family, but I love them just as well and I always think of them. And at least they only live on the other side of the state.... what if they were living on the other side of the country?
I'd say that my family means love and support to me. Sure sometimes we are full of hate, but it disappears after a matter of time. Families fight, it's a part of day to day life. You may think you hate your family for not letting you do something, or get something. But really they are probably helping you. They are protecting you from doing stupid things and becominga spoiled brat that owns everything.
I can always count on my family to cheer me on and be proud of me. They always accept me for who I am, and I do the same in return. I will always love them, no matter how bad the fight or situations, and I hope they will always do the same in return.
So, yes, I picked love and support. That I did. ^_^[/color][/size]

[Kanariya]

My family just feels nothing to me. I don't like to socialize with them, and I don't like my mom very much at all, for all she started my coughing, and it won't go away.
Her boyfriend is a total jerk, and I feel like I want to kill her very badly. I don't live with my dad, and don't see him often so what is there to know about.

I prefer to be alone anyway, except with friends. They just feel like nothing to me, just there.
They aren't really giving me support about the fact that I went to the doctor and he found out I had ringworm. Mom just reminds me to take my pill, but of course I'll take it unless I am in a bad mood, and just think about how bad my life is.