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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People from good, supportive, generally functional families tend to feel this way. It is no mystery to me at all. I do wish they’d understand that not all of us have that, however. Many of the lucky ones can be very judgmental of those who have tough relationships with family or lots of family problems. I get where you are coming from, but[b] surely you can understand that some actually come from good families they want to spend time with? It isn’t their fault that your family (or mine, or many others) is not so great. [/b][/quote]

Did anything come across as accusatory? It was a genuine question. [/quote]

DP and I agree with the PP (and also come from an abusive, dysfunctional family so I get it). I think either OP knows why people from functional families think family is so important, or is being a bit myopic and assuming everyone everyone's family is like theirs.

It can be painful when you are from a bad family to be around functional, good families, but I have also learned a lot from those experiences and totally understand why many people put their families first. I hope my own kids one day feel that way, and that I've done enough to change the course of our family to that kind of mutually supportive and functional system, compared to how I grew up.

I think rather than asking why family is important to people, which I think should be somewhat self-evident, OP could instead ask what makes some families work and others not. That is a question I asked myself and it helped me create a family that works after growing up in one that didn't.[/quote]

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