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What's more important, friendship or family?

Created: 01/10/21

Replies: 7

Posted Jan. 10, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
bluejay

Join Date: 01/17/18

Posts: 14

Conflict

What's more important, friendship or family?


Posted Jan. 10, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
Elizabeth

Join Date: 07/10/19

Posts: 54

RE: Conflict

I think that both often intertwine and that family becomes friends and vice versa. I also believe though that friends will pick family obligations and needs over that of other friends. Perhaps the thinking is that family will always be there even when friends come and go. Physical proximity to either family or friends often determines emotional attachment or so I have found.


Posted Jan. 13, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
rebajane

Join Date: 04/21/11

Posts: 320

RE: Conflict

Gosh, that’s a tough question. I don’t live close to my siblings so, in that case, my friends are more important. Also sometimes they seem more like sisters than my real sisters. But there is nothing more important than my children, their spouses and my grandkids


Posted Jan. 17, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
carriem

Join Date: 10/19/20

Posts: 237

RE: Conflict

Family and friendship do intertwine and are important in different ways to assist with questions you may have and support your decisions and often friends become family.


Posted Jan. 18, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
momo

Join Date: 04/03/19

Posts: 49

RE: Conflict

Tough question. I do not think one is more important than the other. I think they both serve different purposes in our lives and are meant to complement the other.


Posted Jan. 19, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
rachelh

Join Date: 10/19/20

Posts: 50

RE: What's more important, friendship or family?

I agree Momo, I think a healthy balance of the two is ideal!


Posted Jan. 19, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
bluejay

Join Date: 01/17/18

Posts: 14

RE: What's more important, friendship or family?

I think that close friends are family. Blood may define blood lines but history and open heartedness are bonds that last.


Posted Jan. 25, 2021 Go to Top | Go to bottom | link | alert
dianaps

Join Date: 05/29/15

Posts: 460

RE: What's more important, friendship or family?

I have many friends that I consider family. They are both very important to me.


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