I don't have a friend

[parrotthepolly]

In a way I understand, my family (what's left after a huge betrayal) isn't close and things are fractious. Friends...forget it.

I've never thought of "family" as being closer than people who are not related to me by blood.

It's something I've learned before finding out about trauma, it might be a survival mechanism to think relatives are closer but there are people outside that who are more with it and can understand things better.

 

[Metropolitan Nomad]

I've never thought of "family" as being closer than people who are not related to me by blood.

It's something I've learned before finding out about trauma, it might be a survival mechanism to think relatives are closer but there are people outside that who are more with it and can understand things better.

Well even though I have blood relatives there's not much affinity especially with my father who has done more to push me over the edge then anyone else.

 

[parrotthepolly]

Well even though I have blood relatives there's not much affinity especially with my father who has done more to push me over the edge then anyone else.

I meant to say I don't think you need to get along with blood relatives first before making friends, which is what you implied in your last post here.

In a way I understand, my family (what's left after a huge betrayal) isn't close and things are fractious. Friends...forget it.