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Title: The familial instinct
Post by: taiko on May 02, 2009, 08:10:32 PM
I thought of this great thread, wrote the first post all in my head on the way back from the movies, but then kind of decided that i'd not be able to present it in nearly the same quality it went down in my head.  At a minimum, I thought it would get ridiculed.

But then I remembered about people saying how they wanted to start awesome threads and then didn't, and i didn't want to feel that discouraged.

Thus, I'll just ask a question:
At what age did you decide that you didn't want to spend time with your family, and at what age did you decided to start spending time with them again?

I have a theory that most of mankind's wars are fought by the young because of biological impetus, and by the old because of familial impetus.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: daisymae on May 02, 2009, 08:50:28 PM
I was probably 14 or 15 when I decided not to hang out with them, and in my early 20's (ie not living with them) when I decided to hang out with them again.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: psychopathetic on May 02, 2009, 08:55:57 PM
I have always wanted to hang out with my family. Just after i got married at 21 I moved out of my parents house for the first time ever (and 800 miles away). I moved back home (not back in with my parents, just back to a nearby town) ten months later because not being around my family was driving me crazy. Four years later my family and I moved into my parents' house.

We are planning on moving out again in a few years but we need to save a little more first, pay some more bills off, etc. But I don't want to move far away again. Not having my family around makes me feel crazy.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: mosh on May 02, 2009, 09:37:38 PM
6 years old.

I've always been kind of independent.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: underclass on May 02, 2009, 09:47:45 PM
I never stopped hanging out with my family and I call them every 1-2 weeks.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Drugmoth on May 02, 2009, 10:47:47 PM
I have no problems hanging out with my direct family (mother, father, and sister), and the only others I like hanging out with are my first cousin once removed and my second cousin (DJ, Ogre).  I hang out with DJ more than anyone else I know.  I'm quite reclusive, as I've mentioned before. 
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: taiko on May 02, 2009, 11:54:29 PM
For everyone that's answered so far:
What about your parents' parents?
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: psychopathetic on May 03, 2009, 12:24:54 AM
For everyone that's answered so far:
What about your parents' parents?

My dad doesn't speak to his parents very often. His mom comes to Christmas and sometimes day after Thanksgivings gatherings and she shows up when I invite her to my kids' birthday parties and the like.

When I was eleven my parents and I moved into my mom's parents' house. My parents still lived there, even after I moved out. They got their own house about three years ago and I brought my brood to live with them a year after that. My mom still goes to visit her dad regularly (her mom died about four years ago).

About ten years ago there were... Hmm.. Ten people living in my grandparents' house at one time. My grandparents, my parents, me, my aunt and uncle and their three kids. My aunt still lives there with my grandpa. My mom's family is very close. We like to commune.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: mosh on May 03, 2009, 12:38:17 AM
For everyone that's answered so far:
What about your parents' parents?

Oh that's easy.

Emigrated to Australia, 1974. First return trip 1991.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: underclass on May 03, 2009, 02:09:15 AM
same thing, our family hang out every couple of weeks.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Doormouse on May 03, 2009, 02:48:06 AM
I wanted to get out of the home in highschool. In 3rd or 4th year of college already I started to like hanging out with my family. Now I call them nonstop. Especially my siblings. It's amazing watching people grow into adults and start to have intelligent thoughts. I'm big on family these days. I'm very clannish.
I hang out with my maternal grandparents a lot. My paternal grandparents have both died.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Emperor Reagan on May 03, 2009, 03:07:05 AM
I've never stopped hanging out with my family, either.  I see my parents maybe once a month, my brother more frequently, my sister somewhat less frequently.

My mom was in a hurry to get out from under her dad's thumb and out of rural Virginia.  My parents always took us to visit her family frequently, though, and I never picked up on the tension when I was little.  My Dad's family was really close, outside of one douchebag brother who fancies himself to be an important somebody.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: mosh on May 03, 2009, 04:04:44 AM
I havent liked spending time with my family in decades, and considering my immediate family disintegrated in the early 90s, we dont waste much time getting together.

I couldnt much care less about them. Fuck 'em.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Nitya on May 03, 2009, 08:00:15 AM
At what age did you decide that you didn't want to spend time with your family, and at what age did you decided to start spending time with them again?
Around 13. I haven't started to want to spend time with them again yet, I figure I'll do it when I leave home. Right now there's too much friction. It'll be easier later and I know I will later because they're cool people when they're not angry. And well, considering their main source of anger stems from me and my brother...

Oh yeah and my brother. I forget he's family because we get on so well most of the time. We're twins so we see each other a lot at school but I don't really like spending my free time outside of home and school with him because it's weird. Makes me feel like a loser for having no friends but my family. Hah. I won't see him as much come september because, for the first time ever, we're going to be going to different schools! Freaky.

What about your parents' parents?
I've never really spent time with my grandparents. Largely my mothers family live in India so we don't get to see them much and my dad's family don't like us so they don't want to see us much. haha.. They're totally cutting us out for the most part. I don't think they'll ever completely cut us because .. well it's family but they sure ain't keen. My dads brother and his family are cool though. They invited us over in the hols, I want to go. The only reason my mum puts up with the horrid people in our family is because she says we have a duty. I guess that's a sign of how different our viewpoints are because I'm of the honest opinion they're worth nowt.

[bit too much detail but you'lls survive.]
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: daisymae on May 03, 2009, 10:27:08 AM
My grandparents are all gone, but I always liked visiting them.

My middle brother and I are fairly close, my youngest brother has just begun hanging out with the family again.

My sister never got over my birth, thus making her an only child no longer. So as a result she is too consumed by jealousy to want to be anywhere near me. I've tried to have a relationship, but she doesn't return my calls so I gave up years ago. She hates it when my mother spends time with me. She's 40 and her 2 daughters hate each other...

So nobody here was an awkward teen who just wanted to hang out with their friends? Freaks.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Nitya on May 03, 2009, 10:33:37 AM
So nobody here was an awkward teen who just wanted to hang out with their friends? Freaks.
I did until I came to the conclusion that all people suck and I can't be bothered with them. Hence the internet.

Theres only one girl I know that I have no issues with.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Drugmoth on May 03, 2009, 10:55:55 AM
I did until I came to the conclusion that all people suck and I can't be bothered with them. Hence the internet.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Emperor Reagan on May 03, 2009, 11:44:11 AM
So nobody here was an awkward teen who just wanted to hang out with their friends? Freaks.

I grew up in Mormon country.  Even if I had wanted to spend my time just hanging out with friends, they had church enforced family days.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Tru on May 03, 2009, 03:49:04 PM
Grand parents dead, parents dead, sisters both dead, wife separated, kid on his own.

Looks like it's just me myself and I, and kitties. FML
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: FAH-Q on May 03, 2009, 05:38:47 PM
Whoa, Emp. Mormons huh? Glad you got out, dude.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Drugmoth on May 03, 2009, 07:22:08 PM
*hugs Tru*

We're your family.......but you can't fuck us!
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Tru on May 03, 2009, 07:47:11 PM
Hey step back foreign kid before I put a foot in your ass.

Well you're foreign to me and I shun such affection. 

Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: ttfg on May 03, 2009, 07:54:57 PM
He did say you can't fuck him. hmmm, hang on, i thought it was Zoomie that had the foot fetish thing. Maybe Zoomie like to play with feet, and tru likes to fuck people with feet ?
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Zoomie on May 03, 2009, 09:18:20 PM
It depends on the person and the feet.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Tru on May 03, 2009, 09:25:31 PM
Oh if I wanted him to be fucked he would be fucked.

But simply offering a hug only warrants a warning.
No foot fetish involved, just a simple mechanical action carried out to the extreme.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: psychopathetic on May 03, 2009, 09:27:08 PM
It depends on the person and the feet.

i guess. i have to suppose, by your lack of response, that you didn't like my foot picture i posted for you.

*cry*
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: ladiefury on May 03, 2009, 09:43:34 PM
i believe at 13 i started hating my family.. for no other reason than being 13.

Then when i was 19 and a horrible strung out mess, i called my mom for help and we've been incredibly close ever since.

we talk 3-4 times a week and visit once a month. i see my in laws every sunday for dinner.

family becomes more important once you breed.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: psychopathetic on May 03, 2009, 09:49:15 PM
family becomes more important once you breed.

and they are the only people you trust with your children.

i can get behind that for sure.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Zoomie on May 03, 2009, 09:50:08 PM
i guess. i have to suppose, by your lack of response, that you didn't like my foot picture i posted for you.

*cry*

Actually not at all. You have lovely feet. I've just been a little busy. When I find the time to beat my dick so hard and so many times that nothing comes out but wheezes of air, I'll offer a more in-depth critique.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: ttfg on May 03, 2009, 09:52:33 PM
Zoomie has an internal cock pump.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: psychopathetic on May 03, 2009, 09:53:29 PM
i guess. i have to suppose, by your lack of response, that you didn't like my foot picture i posted for you.

*cry*

Actually not at all. You have lovely feet. I've just been a little busy. When I find the time to beat my dick so hard and so many times that nothing comes out but wheezes of air, I'll offer a more in-depth critique.


hahaha, you're such a peach. ;)
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Zoomie on May 03, 2009, 10:12:09 PM
Zoomie has an internal cock pump.

Dude I so wish... Sometimes I'm so tired I couldn't get it up with a squad of porn sluts armed with cute toes, lube and latex gloves. And last night at Beltaine I caught a glimpse of my own reflection and it disgusted me. My torso is thicker at profile than frontal.

Diet starts tomorrow.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Tru on May 03, 2009, 11:51:25 PM
Dieing starts tomorrow yep.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Emperor Reagan on May 04, 2009, 12:54:53 AM
Whoa, Emp. Mormons huh? Glad you got out, dude.

I actually want to move back pretty badly, Mormons not withstanding.  The lifestyle out there was way more laid back, possibly in part due to the emphasis on family life rather than the more career driven lifestyles of the east coast.

Also, in a somewhat related note, I've found that I should avoid the topic of careers when asked by women at the bar.  Explaining that my career is a pointless waste, her career is useless, and the collective efforts of American society are largely worthless masturbatory exercises assigned arbitrary values of financial worth is not the way to endear myself.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: psychopathetic on May 04, 2009, 12:58:57 AM
Whoa, Emp. Mormons huh? Glad you got out, dude.

I actually want to move back pretty badly, Mormons not withstanding.  The lifestyle out there was way more laid back, possibly in part due to the emphasis on family life rather than the more career driven lifestyles of the east coast.

Also, in a somewhat related note, I've found that I should avoid the topic of careers when asked by women at the bar.  Explaining that my career is a pointless waste, her career is useless, and the collective efforts of American society are largely worthless masturbatory exercises assigned arbitrary values of financial worth is not the way to endear myself.

usually it helps if at the end of your diatribe, you shrug and say, "whatever, life is short. we're all headed to the same place, anyway. so do you want to fuck or what?"
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: (_)_)===D on May 04, 2009, 11:27:10 AM
My family is packed to the gills with assholes and I've wanted nothing but to be as removed from them as possible since as far back as I can remember. As a small child (like seven or eight years old) I used to curse God for sticking me with them, and was tormented by not knowing what I did to deserve such a fate as to be stuck with them.

Things haven't changed.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Drugmoth on May 04, 2009, 01:44:37 PM
family becomes more important once you breed.

and they are the only people you trust with your children.

i can get behind that for sure.

I'll get behind you for sure.....

Sorry, I'll try not to do that anymore.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: mosh on May 05, 2009, 07:14:43 AM
My family is packed to the gills with assholes and I've wanted nothing but to be as removed from them as possible since as far back as I can remember. As a small child (like seven or eight years old) I used to curse God for sticking me with them, and was tormented by not knowing what I did to deserve such a fate as to be stuck with them.

Things haven't changed.

I am not alone. Yours was probably worse, because I'm guessing extended family wasnt on the other side of the planet, like mine.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: underclass on May 05, 2009, 07:54:42 AM
I'm guessing clan Mosh isn't as free and easy about life as he is
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: mosh on May 05, 2009, 08:44:12 AM
Some elements of clan Mosh are extremely uptight and sensitive about, ummm, pretty much everything. Contrarian for the sake of it.

Other elements are very self centred, and completely disinterested in anything not about them. Some elements picked up the worst of both and made something even more abhorant.

These elements together do not make for happy families. I'm glad there wasnt extended family around.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: (_)_)===D on May 05, 2009, 09:22:59 AM
My family is packed to the gills with assholes and I've wanted nothing but to be as removed from them as possible since as far back as I can remember. As a small child (like seven or eight years old) I used to curse God for sticking me with them, and was tormented by not knowing what I did to deserve such a fate as to be stuck with them.

Things haven't changed.

I am not alone. Yours was probably worse, because I'm guessing extended family wasnt on the other side of the planet, like mine.

My extended family isn't bad, in fact, some of them are the best people ever. It's my immediate family that sucks ass.
Title: Re: The familial instinct
Post by: Zoomie on May 05, 2009, 07:32:23 PM
Other elements are very self centred, and completely disinterested in anything not about them.

I'm sorry, were you saying something? It wasn't about Sarah's feet so I missed it.