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11-24-2008, 06:50 PM
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Ballroom Diva
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"Christmas is over ... no more HO's!!!"
(set 4 days ago)
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Join Date: Aug 2006
11,561 posts, read 7,014,215 times
Reputation: 7758
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My family are a bunch of nuts, funny as hell, but unfortunately, I'm no longer speaking to them. His family are kinda different. As intellectual as some of them are, they can be really rude and insulting. I vowed never to go up there again for any reason - I don't care who's funeral it is. So ... basically you guys are it. You're my dysfunctional family. But I am picking and choosing the ones I want to weed out and excommunicate.
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11-24-2008, 07:05 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jun 2007
3,034 posts, read 2,375,919 times
Reputation: 633
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I feel for ya, CPG. My family is huge--full of siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, cousins, cousins, cousins. Mom was from a big family. Dad was from a bigger family. Grandparents all had lots of siblings. You get the picture. Furthermore, we all talk loudly and at once and it's not unusual for 10 different conversations to be going on during dinner and for 15 different people each participating in every conversation.
My husband's family? He's an only child that comes from a line of only children on both sides of the family. The best one-word adjective differences to describe us. My family. LOUD His family QUIET
We don't do holidays with his family anymore. It's just too depressing for me!
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11-24-2008, 11:25 PM
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Far from perfect but still better than YOU!!
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: SoCal - Sherman Oaks & Woodland Hills
7,072 posts, read 5,380,343 times
Reputation: 3791
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Well, I have two entirely different families - my dad's side and my mothers side. Dad's side are fun loving live-to-eat and celebrate the holidays hillbilly types and my mothers side (whats left of them) are just kind of boring. We plan on visiting both my families during thanksgiving but need to make arrangements for the stepson to be with his father since he's not a part of my family, I dont feel right taking him to visit my relatives. The wife's family are all still in Russia so they will not be visiting this Thanksgiving.
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11-25-2008, 04:56 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2008
134 posts, read 54,534 times
Reputation: 61
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My family is very expressive. Random presents, always telling each other they love one another, making lots of effort to stay in contact. His family isn't as expressive. They rarely say things like "i love you." Which is not to say they aren't a loving family, just that they tend to show it through action and not so much in words. Also, they sort of see each other when they see each other, and definitely make less effort to stay in contact.
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