How much you can express your feelings in your family with your brothers/sisters

this is a very touching one, since im alone and my parents are on the other city, as well as my sisters and brothers, hmmm, i miss them, my mom and dad are getting old and as much as possible i would want to stay with them..misunderstandings are common,but you can really feel that your important to them coz its like the family has a string that connects to you, like suddenly you'll feel your heart beats faster, that day all of us feel the same way even if we're far away, the reason was that day, my sister's crying, she may have a problem with her husband or other..and she's pregnant,so we decided to visit her and it feel alot better. :)

Sad to say, my family members belong to the second category. As much as I would like to be open and share freely my feelings, I am not able to do so to my parents and elder brother. The reason I believe stem from the fact that my parents did not encourage us to do that from young. So now I feel very awkward and prefer sharing my problems and innermost thoughts with close friends instead.

The problems or the things which i think necesary and important to discuss with them either it is a brother or sister i dont matter.

I can say what ever I want to my sisters, I have gotten brave enough to say what needs to be said to my dad's wife. I know some of the things I have said to her have been disrespectful but she can be very rude to me also. My mom I have had to take on the mother role and told her what to do and where she shall live. I put her in a nursing home because she lived with me and was not taking her meds like prescribed or eating healthy. She was falling all the time and I could not take care of her anymore. So it depends upon what family members I am talking to as to what I can say to them

There were times that we talked about family problems but I perfer to tell it to someone who is very closed to me.