Anyone else NOT talk to THIER family? Why?

[tha-hawt-mommie]

Everyone seems so shocked that i dont associate w/ my family .. at all .. is it really that uncommon?!

my dad : after my mom died i got social security (i didnt know for 1 year) and him and his GF (now wife) spent it , i got $25 a week .. i sat and figured the money out , and if he wouldnt have spent it i could have gone to school or something ... they said it should be used to support me , but he bought his wife a new car , paid off her dads house , got her phones , etc ... i barely had clothes for school , before i got them when i asked , than he had to ask her and see if i was allowed to use that money for them

my sister : shes psycho! she tried to kick my door in saturday ... all i did was tell her i dont think its right that she uses the guy shes w/ .. thats all , shes said things 10000x worse to me

my moms sisters/nieces/nephews : after my auntie died the whole family stopped speaking to me ... i had my son at 17 and thats when it got worse! but my cousin had hers at 14 and quit school and smokes up her child support , but i get looked down upon

my dads sisters/brothers/nieces/nephews : his brother & his kids dnt like me because im not in the army and didnt get w/ someone who is ... and i had sex before marriage , and i dont believe in god ... etc .. lol

so am i honestly the only one who doenst talk to my family?! my friends always say 'oh my god im so sorry' im not ... rynes family is GREAT and i have them , im fine!

[aj23]

I just recently started talking to my siblings again after my mom begged me to. For a long time my mom was the only family I spoke too.

My brother went off on his oldest daughter for dating a black guy. Which wasn't fine but its his kids and what not but then he went on and on about how "different breeds" shouldn't mix and how it was a sin to date outside of your race. Then in the same conversation he asked me if he could keep my son for the weekend. My son is bi racial and I didn't want him going into a household where someone was referring to him as a mixed breed. We got into a huge fight about him being a hypocrite.  How can you be so against dating outside your race and not have a problem with a mixed race child?  Well my sister started in on it too, which is funny since she had a problem with my son being half black and her daughters are half hispanic but she sees nothing wrong with that.  So I just stopped talking to all of them. 
To be 100% honest, when my mom passes away I won't have anything to do with my family at all. I don't fit in with them, there is a huge age gap, and we just live different lifestyles. I don't want my son growing up around people who are that judgemental. They think i'm snooty because of the things I enjoy and the fact I care what I look like.

I noticed you said you family didn't like you having sex before you were married. Funny thing with my family, I waited until I was married and they thought I was strange because of it.

[KatherineM]

The only person I dont speak to in my family is my younger sister. She hates my husband and thinks he has brain washed me into looking down on the family. I havent spoken to her in over a year. But all in all its because she is jealous because I have found a great guy. And she is 25 and working on her 2nd divorce.

[MamaTasha08]

I have limited contact with most of my family for similar reasons.  They don't treat me well and they are just not healthy for me to be around.  I don't think it's weird at all.  I choose to move far away and I don't see them often.  My BIL made a comment to me one day about how it's weird that I live out here and none of my family does.  To me it's just about being and adult and choosing what is best for me and my family.  It might seem weird to people who have good relationships with their families.

[kimmyrenee30]

Both my parents have passed away now but before that I barely spoke with my mom until she got sick and hadn't spoken to my dad in years.. I grew up in a BAD home and I swear I'm only sane today because I had great older brothers and wonderful extended family members.. my mom was an alcoholic and I dealt with that for so long but when I had my first child I couldn't handle it any longer so we grew apart.. my dad cheated on my mom for years right under her nose and fathered 2 additional children.. that's why he and I didn't speak.. dysfunction at it's finest.. I'm glad I can give my children better!!

[rickys_mom19]

i dont speak to my mother. in 2007 my sister and i came forward and told the cops how our stepfather used to molest us. she called us bitches and liars. he plead guilty. she tried talking to us again. he got out of jail after 15 months, he  got out on my sons 1st birthday. he lives with her, and she says she loves him. she still tries to have a relationship with me and my sis. we told her until she gets rid of her child molesting husband, we want nothing to do with her.

[MixedCooke]

I dont speak with:

My father--he is/was a drunk, drug addict, womanizer and physical abuser

My half brother--raped my sister and put me in the dryer and turned it on

My sister--we are civilized but not close, like oil and water.  I was happy when she moved away.

[babie113]

i dont talk to my older bro he sexualy abused me and my younger brother from age 5 till i was 15 .

i dont have a good relationship with my mom because she let him do it in my mind.

my dad i still talk to though he was a mean drunk growing up and did some unforgivable things to me .he has been there for me as a adult though .

my younger brother never has a job a home to live in and is a drunk too .

i moved 4000 miles away from my family ..i dont blame me lol

[pagentkween2]

I dont speak to my sister.

She is tainted, I swear.

[x_sabine_x]

I'm not going into details cause I'd end up writing a book but-

I pretty much only talk to my family when I have to. My mom's side is all women who have nagged their men TO DEATH! They are all very judgemental and nothing is ever good enough for them. My dad's side is ok I guess. My dad was never there for me but now that I'm an adult I'm more just friends with him than his daughter. The rest of his family is dead or out of the state, the family he married into is ok but I don't go out of my way to talk to them either. I get a long with my dad a lot better than my mom!!!

My fiance's family is almost all lazy pieces of crap, except for his mom. I LOVE HIS MOM! She is super down to earth and has been more of a mother to me than my mom ever was. I'm so glad she's in my life!

So no, you are not weird to not talk to your family. At least not to me.

-Ellen-

[RaynesMommy07]

I talk to some ppl in my family and others I dnt.  My father is my best friend, I love him with all of my heart.  Me and my mother talk, but we bump heads.  She's indecisive and sees the good in everything/body & I see things how they REALLy are...it upsets her.  I talk to my little brother 3 x's a day, he's my heart.  I really, really love him =]  He's like my kid lol.  I dnt talk to my sister at all, she makes me sick.  She thinks she can NOT function without a man, and will NOT function unless she has one, and I do mean literally NOT function.  She will neglect her kids when she does have a man!  Disgusting!  My oldest brother I dnt talk to him, guess we're too much alike and we bump heads.  He doesn't agree with how I live, he thinks I'm a "goody, goody".  I graduated high school n college, have a good job, great family, etc..guess he's jealous?  My middle brother, I love him, but he's just well different.  We're family..we talk occasionally..that's all that I know lol.

My nieces and nephews are my world.  I love them VERY unconditionally, and if need be..we all come together as a family for them.  I might not talk to my brother or my sister, but they do respect me as their children's aunt and vice versa with my kids.  When it comes to our kids, we become 100% adults and let all of our bs go.