Many family members have quarrels and don't speak to each other. Do you?

Yea actually I dont talk to anyone in my family other than my legal neice...I avoid my mother at all costs because of the abuse and I havent talked to her husband becuase of the abuse..I stopped talking to my sister 7 yrs ago because of a fight we had at my mothers on Xmas the yr we buried my son and the fight was OVER THE ABUSE and I dont talk to my brother any more (as of this past fall) because of......you guessed it...the abuse....Will I consider forgiveness....not with my mother and DEFINATELY not with her husband EVER..my sister...the only way I would ever forgive her would be if she told my mother (in front of me) that she lied all those yrs ago and I was verbally and emotionally beat down ever since then because of my sisters misplaced loyalty to our mother...My brother? I dont know, I imagine maybe someday but that is still fresh so I'm just waiting for the ball to drop on that one then I MAYBE will talk to him about it all...but anyone who knows me knows to not hold their breath on that...Will I be alone or with family?? well I'll be with family of course!! My family (my husband and my two kids)

I am big on family and even bigger on forgiving. Life is way to short to allow silly fights keep you apart. I have had things said and done to me by family, but I know in my heart for me to be ok I had to forgive and more on.

No I try to put these little spats behind me as quickly as possible and heal the rifts between us. I have too small a family to not talk to anybody.

My family and I don't talk much. They can't have us over or vice versa without starting an argument with my husband. SO instead of ruining everyone's holiday we just don't go. Maybe one day they will accept that I am married and accept my husband for the wonderful man that he is.

I definitely am with family, immediate and some extended. It's sad to see families that don't get along. To be honest, I'd rather not get together then get together and fight! I hope people can find it in their hearts to get along. I truly see too many who fight when they gather. It's sad.

I depends on the situation. My husband and I do not speak to his family on his dad's side. We just found out that his sister had written a bunch of checks using an account that my husband closed a long time ago. We are wondering how these checks even got used because the account had been closed. He filed a police report and we are going to press charges and hopefully she will go to jail. Forgiveness, no...she will need to ask God for that.

i think it's pretty normal for families to have arguments and stuff like that. but to carry on a grudge is something else. christmas is a beautiful season, and for me, it's a rather good time to tear down walls and division and build, instead, bridges of communication.

yea many times i didnt talk to my cousin, and recently since 5 years i dont to other cousins. it all started when they laughed at me teased me and when did something bad said i did it. i even stopped visit my family and im happy about it i wont consider any forgiveness becuz now without them i feel much much better i feel higher self-estime. i dont need family i'm not a family person. but also i have problems with my mother, she stoped speak to me since august. and now she regrets it she wanna talk again but whenever she saysa wrod to me it is aggression, and i feel really bad after a conversation, so all in all im not going to run myself and try to be her friend or something, it would cost me a depression.

I didn't talk to my dad for 3 years, because of a huge fight. And it ended up with basically a "war" of sorts between myself and my aunts and uncles on that side of the family (with a few exceptions). Then he found out he had cancer, and so we reconciled. There are a couple of people in his family I still don't talk to, though. I generally don't talk with my mom, though. We never have been very close.

No,!!!! I dont have any such! Family is very Precious. Not many people get this thing. I have got this. Quarrels are there but they are resolved easily by mutual understanding. You cant broke up ur blood relation just for a mere quarells.

of course i do or why they are my family ?

Family is relative, NOT "relatives". There are plenty of people who read what I write who know well that I value family, but have nothing in regards to people related to us. Do I forgive them for their sins against me? Of course, and I hope that they will eventually forgive me, too. And let us examine that word "family" shall we? How many times have you felt like you have not fit in to this group of people who are supposed to love you regardless, but who choose instead to say terrible things to you, about you, about everything you care about in your life, the life where they do not exist and know so? Family, to me anyway, is not a group of people into which you are born. Family is a group of people with whom you share your life, and family can be composed of friends and relatives and people who you just choose to love. Relatives, lots of them, and lots of mine, expect too much for too little in return. They want your respect, but they want you to beg for it, to bleed for it, to act as though they are the reigning royalty in your life, but in return they want to do as little as possible. Relatives, many of them, want you to look past the sins they commit against you, but they want to make you bleed for the wrongs that you have done to them, willingly or not, and they want you to do it RIGHT NOW! Relatives want to be able to say horrible things to you, to your parents, to your children. They want to say bad things to people who don't know you, and they want you to accept it that way because you are, after all, related, and that gives them carte blanche to say and do whatever they want to and about you, because that is how it is. But don't dare allow the shoe to be worn on the other foot, no way. You may not judge, look croos, be angry with them, and when they need something done, you have to do it, because "family does for family." And that is the only part that they ever get right, that fmaily does for family. I do stuff for the people I love and respect, and I cherish the time that I have with them here in this life. That I feel this way toward those related by DNA to me is regardless in relation to the way that I feel about the people whom I choose to call my family. There is nothing I will not do, or at least make an effort to try to do for them, even lay my life on the line for them, give my last dime to, my last morsel of food to. Where there is family and love, and where there is love and respect reciprocated between family members, Love is all, the Beginning and the end and everything in between. Family is love. Relatives are blood. Blood is thicker than water. I have always maintained, though, that in order for the blood to flow as it should, you need water. Water is the thing that life is made of. Water is recyclable, but blood turns into a scab. (Yes, I have some very serious issues with relative..so there) AUNTY

very bad . be honest to ur family.

veeeery bad. this shouldnt be done. at leat be jonest to ur family.

No. Nothing like that. Ofcourse sometimes there is some tiffs in between the members but do never turn out to such a big extent. I love my family and we are all one.

i fought with my brother n i have stopped talking to him and time ran like 3 yrs n v dint talk yet

ya i didnt speak with my bro for d past one year

Im speading Christmas with my family.My mom and I dont see eye to eye.Since we havent spoken in some time.She wrote to me inviting me over for Christmas dinner.I have accepted.I will do my best to make it a good Christmas.I think in time I can forgive her for the past and look forwar to a brighter future.

many times.. i fight wit my mom.. that always ends up me askin her sorry

our family do sometimes have misunderstandings..but after some days, everything goes back to normal..it's one of the good things i love in my family..after all, we are family..who else will have to understand and help each other but us also...