We can't pick our born-into family, but we can pick our own family and friends.
I spent too much of my life trying to get along/bending over backwards to mollify ill-intended family members (who were only ever jealous, but I couldn't fully see it).
We can’t pick our born-into family, but we can pick our own family and friends.
Well, this could be an entire thread in and of itself, or a completely separate website, to discuss family dynamics, and how many of us just aren’t one big happy family.
I’ve got liberals in my family, who are incapable of discussing the issues. They say anyone opposed to them are racist sexist homophobic, Islamophobic, the whole nine yards. They listen only to NPR and watch comedians such as Jon Stewart to get their news.
Other family members are just rude crude and obnoxious.