How do you get on with your family?

Hi guys. I have the strangest family, probably something like everybody’s family. The strange thing about it is how each relative is loving and caring – but not toward each other in the family. We’re all related to one another, like any family, yet we don’t treat each other like it. It just strikes me as absurd, contradictory. Everybody has a gripe about everyone else, and there are all sorts of politics and dynamics about who’s talking to whom. If I could solve our problem, I would, then everyone would be happy. In one way and another, I’ve been puzzling out this problem for a long time.

Anybody else have problems with family dynamics? (Maybe this should be a poll.)

I don’t get on well with them at all. I don’t speak to my father (he’s an alcoholic). My brother only texts me if he needs something from me. My mother passed away when I was 15 going on 16, as did her parents before I turned 19.

My brother and I still speak, as I said above, and we get along better than we did as kids, but at this point, I basically have no family unless it’s the holidays.

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I’m grateful for my mom dad sister and brother in law and my moms sister (aunt). But barely anybody else I like. At least the people I’m closest too, are the best. I also like my schizoaffective cousin. He once told me “I was diagnosed with autism today it sucks” and I was just like “oh”. But he’s not really autistic and he’s sza which is what he was trying to tell me cuz he knew that I was too. He seems to be doing soooo much better on abilify than he ever was. And he’s been in psych wards since he was ten years old and just now at 24 he’s getting stable.

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