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Family Relationships

It is said, “Blood is thicker than water.”, and “Family first.” But we’re also told , “You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family.” Which is it in your family? Or have you had both loving as well as strained relationships with your parents, or with your own children? Or with siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, or in-laws? Have there been estrangements or feuds in your family, and if so have they been resolved? Think back about Family Relationships and share forward!

What is there about big sisters?

by Jim Willis

Sometimes a guy just needs his big sister (although he doesn't always want her to know it!)

A Unofficial Family Feud Memoir

by Kevin Driscoll

Family Relationships Ah, family. The people you share a significant portion of your DNA with, which for some [...]

My Conkeydoodle

by Dana Susan Lehrman

My Conkeydoodle I’ve had many loving family relationships, and one of them was with Conkeydoodle. (See Call Me by Their [...]

by Dana Susan Lehrman

Guardian I never thought we’d lose touch or become estranged from good friends, but sadly it happened. (See The Gs and [...]

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I had met someone who seemed like the love of my life a couple of years earlier, and it hadn’t worked out (although it [...]

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by Risa Nye

This is how it started. I asked him to write down the lyrics to “Both Sides Now” for me. We were both seniors [...]

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Family Relationships

It is said, “Blood is thicker than water.”, and “Family first.” But we’re also told , “You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family.” Which is it in your family? Or have you had both loving as well as strained relationships with your parents, or with your own children? Or with siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, or in-laws? Have there been estrangements or feuds in your family, and if so have they been resolved? Think back about Family Relationships and share forward!