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⌈ Secret Post #2957 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

What's the difference between familial relationships and how they feel and friendships, then?

[dreemyweird]

For me, if there's any difference, it's superficial. My relationship with my sister is probably closer than with my other friends because we've spent so much time living together and know more about each other than our friends do. But I think it'd be the same if I lived a major part of my life with with any of my other friends.

Financial interdependence tends to play a role in familial relationships, too, but that does very much depend on the kind of family we're talking about.

I do like saying "this is my sister" about my sis, specifically, rather than "this is my friend", but it's just a badge of affection. Isn't it nice to have a special word for denoting the fact that you share certain genetic information with a friend of yours? :D

Then there's the assumption that family members should always support each other (i.e. even in situations when other friends might abandon you), which often influences the dynamics of familial relationships. I don't find this idea truthful or useful in any way, but some of my family members do, so that has a bearing on how they treat me.

But on the whole, there's no part of a familial relationship that could never be a part of any other friendship.

[(Anonymous)]

I find this odd. Everyone I talk to tends to have state familial relationships, while not bound by blood, aren't the same as friendships--not exactly. It's not superficial so much as a feeling. It's... Hm.

Familial, friendship, romance... They're all different kinds of love, and they're all equal, but different by feeling, I guess you could say? :|a I definitely don't feel the same toward my family as I do friends, and my family is actually mostly comprised of people not related by blood.

[dreemyweird]

I think it might be the fact that my family was such an absolute trainwreck that I never had any close familial relationships apart from my relationships with my younger sister and my granny. The rest of it just went horribly wrong.

But you're right, I think - potato has already said that this is the case for her, so I imagine the same can be said for most other relationship types.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, see, I don't like my blood family for the most part. xD; But I still have familial relationships outside of it. It's a feeling, kind of like how joy and elation are both on the happiness spectrum, I guess you could say.