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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why all these hierarchy and ranking and priority postings lately? I'm closer to friends than some family members, but still see family as family and friends as friends. That's not to say I wouldn't move heaven and Earth to help a friend in need, but if you're blood that's just a thing that a friend isn't. [/quote]

But shouldn't it be based on closeness and not blood?[/quote]

A friend falls out and moves away, you can never see or hear of them again. You see family at least at weddings, funerals, holidays, reunions, and hear about them from other family. [/quote]

That doesn't make you close to them though. Again look around on DCUM at how many people have had to cut off blood relatives out of their life because of toxicity. Not all friends fall out either and the great thing about technology now a days is that even if someone moves away it's much easier to keep in touch with them via zoom or FaceTime or other methods.

It's just false that being blood related guarantees that you will be closer to someone than a friend. [/quote]

I….never said that makes them close. That wasn’t the OP’s question. The question is: are best friends family to you? And **my answer, to me, in my view and experience and in my opinion** is that there’s a level of connection even when there is a falling out with family that you don’t see with friendship. My aunt is estranged from my uncle, but they still see each other and can chat cordially for family events. Whereas my aunt also had a grew-up-with/were-college-roommates-and-roomates-as-young-professionals friend that—after a horrible falling out—they have never spoken since, not even when their respective sets of parents died.

You don’t need to argue with me about my view and my opinion. I stated my opinion, and I didn’t try to argue anyone else out of theirs. Why is it so hard for some of you that people see the world differently than you do?[/quote]

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