How Has Your Upbring Effected Your Relationships?

[PhenomenalAJ]

I generally was mostly mistrustful of women because of my mother and my dad is like a non-Southern JR Ewing but they're still married. I don't really blame them for my lack of successful relationships, its more because I have a weird personality where I'm superficially charming but im bad in a lot of ways when you get deeper.

[Rhenzanite]

My parents are wonderful!

BUT, they did get married and have me very early (Mom was 19, Dad was 22) and kind of experimented with me a bit. They've always been very caring, but fairy hands off parents and they basically let us make our own mistakes and live with the consequences. Luckily, me and my siblings are really close and have never made any huge mistakes. No pregnancies, no failed marriages, only 1 restraining order (long story on that one ) and no jail time so far. I'd say we're doing pretty good.

My upbringing was fantastic, but unfortunately my peers were not all that great. My looks and personality started getting picked on in 5th grade and it continued to the point of needing to drop out of High School and attend a continuation school because of bullying. My parents were both supportive in that.

I think my opinion of men would be vastly different if I'd grown up in a different area.

[rego00123]

i grew up in a dysfunctional home with parents that divorced when i was 12. if anything it changed me for the better, if i had not seen how they treated one another i might have turned out all to similar.
everything else in life has been pretty peachy, i really cant complain...though ive never been a sit there and feel sorry for myself kind of person....which has a lot to do with how one views the world around them.

[IH8HumanResources]

Originally Posted by Mr. Humble

I guess I'm mostly talking about your parents' marriage, or the marriage of those who raised you.

Reading another thread got me wondering, how many of you grew up in happy families and how many did not. Also, if you were fortunate, have you been able to find the same happiness that your parents had, able to duplicate that bliss in your own relationships? If you grew up in a bad family situation has that plagued you in your relationships?

We are effected, regardless. I think good/bad fortune can also play a part.

i think the fact on how i was very limited socially in the past is the reason why i'm still single even today, obviously it hurts guys more than girls, since girls don't have to initiate

[SouthernRXMan]

My father was a drunk who was verbally abusive and i hated him for it but his actions made me a better man and father. I miss him.