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Clair

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As Chii said, my family is stable, but not flawless. My mom is great - she can get a little uppity and breathes down my neck (figuratively) sometimes, but overall she's awesome and has a great sense of humor. My dad has a good heart, but I think he's going a little bit senile or something. He used to be quite annoying and uptight, but that was due to s**t he was getting at work which he didn't talk about - leading to a recent stress-related breakdown which he had to be admitted to a clinic for for a while - but since he got back home he's been a lot more relaxed and just generally "more improved". My one sister still lives at home, she's generally great and she's quite crazy in a fun way (as am I), but we have differences sometimes but we generally get along very well. My other sister lives up in the northern suburbs (which, we tease, is a different country). She's married and we hardly see her nowadays, but she's awesome. She's the one who introduced me to good taste in music (bias). She came down two weeks ago actually, but I was out so I didn't see her. :(

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Family stability?

I'll put my family's status on that.

Currently, we just cope with our problems by mocking and making fun of a certain family member.

The current poor bastard selected is a guy me and my cousins call "Japanese" Uncle.

We call him that because he lived in Japan for a while, raised a family there, but left due to his wife having a affair and the kids turning out to be not his.

He went to the States loaded and hoping we'd help him out and provide some support.

All he got was trash talk, and a horrible life as my Uncle's b****. Not only that, but since he's younger then my dad, my dad constantly reminds him of his family and stuff and is still seen socially acceptable in my family. I'm the only one who actually tries to be nice to him and help him out how I could.

Now, because I'm being nice, the whole damn family is now targeting me.

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[quote name='Icyblue' timestamp='1320640143' post='5623394']
Me and my dad won't speak to each other AT ALL. But there is a very good reason for this. It's gotten to the point where "father" is a title, not a right.
Me and my mom are fairly close, used to be much worst but it's getting better.
Me and my stepfather... well I want him to be slain like the beast he is.
Me and my stepmom, we always got along. May she rest in peace.
Me and my second stepdad, we could talk stories for hours about nothing haha. I absolutely miss him.
Me and my mentor. Great, but he moved out of state and has a full time job. Celebrated his 1 year marriage anniversary a few weeks ago too.

... yea.
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Owch josh, to think someones been through so much of that is just, well you know, hopefully its puts a lot of peoples relationships with parents 'they hate because they x,y,z stupid reason' in perspective. Thats not pointing at anyone in this thread specifically, know it applies to me and probably some over-reactive members.

I've been a bit of a *insert your own expletive* towards both my mum and dad, having pretty much turned to mum and saying 'yeah I'm leaving to go college in Nottingham next week and have got myself sorted. Bye' without any warning or anything which was very poor of me as it upset her greatly. Dad I could list a million and one flaws about my dad and when I lived with him we rowed a bit, but again some of that was me being too hard on the guy. He is who he is, and looking past those flaws he is a good person.

However it is still worth noting that having moved out of each person's respective houses, my relationship with each parent has improved tenfold. Four years on me and mum are really tight now, more than we've ever been, and things are patching up with Dad a bit and we're a lot more amicable now.

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It's fine to point out flaws with your parents and all, but they could probably name just as many flaws with you. On the topic of being arrogant and thinking they're always right as parents sometimes do, that also describes almost every member on this freaking site.

As for me, I have no significant problems with either of my parents.

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[quote name='Icyblue' timestamp='1320651261' post='5623512']
Fickle things culturally based parents are. Some may not even show any form of love, care or beyond the basic needs to show acknowledgement. But that doesn't mean they don't care at all. As you get older (around your early to mid 30's) you'll see. Parent's like that, would have left you on the streets if they were as bad as you always seem to claim. But they didn't did they? According to your story here, they pretty much forced success onto you. THAT would be their appreciation.
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Again, I'd say speak for yourself.

Tell me, do your parents go around saying "You're an accident"?

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