Do you honour your Parents and get along with the Family?

[The Good]

Do you honour your Parents? Do you get along with your Family? Well, I'll be the first to say that I do. I have no quarrels with my brothers, sister, or parents. I honour my parents as the heads of my family as well, something becoming alarmingly uncommon in today's "Western" countries. Of course, I suppose I can say it's easy to honour my parents, because I'm treated fairly, I don't think I've argued in quite some time now, and I don't intend to start soon.

Now, I don't know at the moment which stance most of you have towards your parents or other family members, but try not to be so bitter towards anyone. Forgive and forget, you know...

I'll also run a little poll, each choice is supposed to represent which is your stance towards your parents. But I don't want any of you to just vote in the poll, and leave. I, as well as others, want to know what you think personally.

[Thanatos]

I fight and squabble with my sister all the time, but that's just typical sibling fighting.

Nothing serious.

I love my family.

[Lemonjello]

I lived in foster homes for the entirety of my life as a minor, and generally disrespect to the welfare queens who "raised" me resulted in a swift lashing.

[Mathias]

My brother is dead, my other siblings are only half-siblings which are much older than me and have moved out a long time ago, and I don't have much contact with them.
My parents... well I plain just don't like them that much. I don't hate them either, I'm just completely indifferent to them, as long as they don't bother me. Just having them in the same room as me bothers me though.

What a great family I have.

[Dayman]

I fully respect my mother, we have a different type of parent relationship, she was never a disciplinarian. She could "punish" me by simply being disappointed in me. Now she's like my closest adviser, who also gives me money when I run out .

My father, I do not communicate with.

I'm fine with the rest of my family except for the branch of my great aunt's, all of whom are evangelicals, and worse, they all have huge egos, probably stemming from that evangelicalism.


And I think overall, as long as a parent is good, provides, and treats their children like other people and guides them, then they deserve respect. A poor parent deserves no respect. Essentially, no one deserves respect just because they are a parent, or your parent. Any moron can have a kid. They need to earn that respect.

[LoZz]

i dont get some people who dont get on with there parents. i mean i do if obvious abuse has happened but some people seem to hate there parents for no simple reason other then they care about them.

i love my parents, and we get on great and always have done, i am proberly the only person i know who enjoys spending time with his parents and would choose to do so. me and my sibling, sure we have our arguements but again we get on

[Centurion-Lucius-Vorenus]

My siblings moved out, both have graduated college. As for my mom, I just dont like her as a person. And My dad dosen't live with us anymore.

[Kiki52]

I had and sometimes still have a rough time with my parents. I could say that I respect them but many times they always end up doing something that pisses me off. I am very sensitive when I deal with my parents in general and I don't know why. I am still trying to work to get a better relationship with my parents. About my family, I tend to have good relationships with most of my cousins and my brother, but sometimes occasionally they do something too that seems to insensitive to me.

[Irishman]

I have nothing but respect for my parents. I may have disagreements with them (on topics such as religion and politics), but I respect them and their accomplishments.

[Thanatos]

With my extended family, there can be some tension, especially regarding topics like religion or politics, but as a whole, I love them all.

[Idwayreth]

There is always an underlying tension that could explode with the slightest spark when i'm in the same room as my mother. I love her, i just dont like being around her for too long. She's a very judgemental and close minded person and when i think about the things she put me and my sister through when we were kids i get really pissed off. I bowed never to be like her with my kids when i have them and would even go as far as not letting her babysit at all unless i'm there.

My relationship with my godmother however(my mother's sister) is 100% the opposite. Not only do i love her as a mother, but i feel like i can talk to her about anything and she doesn't degrade or put me down when she responds. my only regret is that she lives half a world away and i barely am able to talk or see her and my favorite cousins at all the last few years.

[IndianPrince]

Im a single child & thus have no siblings to worry about while i not only respect my parents & love them for who they are & for making me who i am. They are really good parents who have always been there for me & i am sure they are happy that i unlike many other children out there acknowledge the fact. Anyways ... i do have my disagreements & at that time i detest them with passion but then when my anger subsides, i act as if nothing happened ... though this happens very rarely nowadays ... prolly im maturing or my parents are getting more understanding. I can never ask for anything more

Prince

[Chaigidel]

I am very close with my family; and we trust one another implicitly -- we may not agree on everything but we all get along fine.

[Syron]

I can only stay in the same room as my mum for a short time without an argument. Don't get on at all, i could easily go through a uni semester not in contact with her.

My dad is more like a friend, we're very much alike and get on well. Saying that we rarely keep in contact either.

[The Prophet]

My parents own me. Thats all I can really say. Good slave masters though.