do you personally feel obligated to love family?

I feel obligated to nothing.

 

as far as i know they are pretty much synonymous. but personally, i think obligated sounds slightly better.

 

Ah ok, cheers

 

No, and no.

Doesn't mean that I don't though.

 

I find it impossible.

 

It does sound better. At least it does to me....

 

No. I do love and like most of them, but I don't feel an obligation.

 

I feel a bit obligated to love my family. However, if they were who they are but not my family... I probably wouldn't talk to them.

 

I don't really give a shit if someone is related to me or not. Everyone faces the same question in my mind.

Does this person add more joy or more stress to your life?

If it's stress, they get told to fuck off.

As for the idea that 'blood is thicker then water', so is the tar in the tar pits...

 

Yes I do. I have a strong sense of family. I will not always like them but I have a very strong sense of family.

 

Same here. I don't like them, but I love them more than anything.

 

yes I do...

sometimes they make it really hard though.

 

i have a natural bond with blood relatives. can't help it. but i tend to love anyone who's good to me. if they're not good to me, i don't like them, but if they're family, somehow i still love them. go figure.

 

No, my mom, brother, and dad just simply don't suck. And one of my three cousins is more like a brother to me than a cousin, so he gets trapped in the family I do love category. And both of my grandmothers. As far as everyone else is concerned, they're acquaintances, friends at best. Love is a strong word to toss around and you can't make yourself love someone. You either do or you don't.

 

I'm okay with them.

 

no.

 

Immediate family yes, my parents have done so much for me already, they are awesome people.

Other than that, I don't really know anyone well enough to love but I like the nice people. I do feel obliged to like them. If I don't, then I don't but I try to get on with as many relatives as I can.

 

Honestly, those people are monsters.

 

Uhm no, I don't have to love someone if I don't want to... and no one can make me.

 

Mother, Brother and one cousin on my mothers side.

The rest of them, even an hour or two once a year at christmas is torture