"Blood thicker than water"

BeingKindIsEasy · ‎05-24-2015

The phrase in my topic "Blood is thicker than water" was used in a previous post. I have limited family and will have no blood relatives in a few years( due to age of living relative). This has always made me feel different when it comes to holidays and other traditonal "family" events. The comment about "blood is thicker than water" made me ponder if this makes me "less than" because I don't have blood relatives but rather a full life with job and other ithings that fill my time. Just curious how many other people have limited or no family and how they feel about their situation and how others judge them.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

I have very few blood relatives, and I'm not close to them. I'm content with the people in my life, and consider myself fortunate that I have such good friends. As for being judged, I have no use for people who waste their time judging other folks lives. I' happy fulfilled and loved, but even if I weren't, that is my business. We don't have much control over what family we have, it is what it is.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

@BeingKindIsEasy I don't think the number of relatives a person has would be reason to judge anyone. To me, that phrase has more to do with loyalty. Your life seems full and you are happy which is a great place to be.

chiclet · ‎03-19-2010

My husband and I are alone without any close relatives. At holidays it is just the two of us and we feel like we are the only ones. We just dread the Christmas holidays.

BeingKindIsEasy · ‎05-24-2015

Thanks for taking time to reply. I think the "blood is thicker than water" phrase was stated regarding using the phrase "step" when speaking of the daughter or son of a spouse that is not related to you by blood.

@chiclet I'm sorry you and your husband are alone and I hope that you can develop new traditons and events that make you dread the Holidays less.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I have only one blood relative, a 21-yo nephew who I am not physically or emotionally close to whatsoever. He is a complete stranger to me. I would consider myself a sole survivor because I have no immediate family. I am truly alone. You know how they ask you to put down "emergency contacts" in a application or document of some sort? Well I leave that part blank because there is no one.

I don't have a problem with being lone. But I do think most of my friends don't, and probably never will, understand what it's like to be in my shoes. So how can they judge me if they don't know that part of me?

IMW · ‎06-15-2014

I am adopted. For years no blood relatives, made no difference I had terrific parents who I miss dearly daily.

I now have blood relatives: daughter, son, 2 grandsons.

I am very blessed, and have always been.

QueenDanceALot · ‎04-18-2013

What kind of sorry ****** person would judge someone who has no family?

reiki604 · ‎03-09-2010

I hate using cliches or memes but one seem appropriate for this "Friends are the family we choose". If I never saw my surviving brother again or his wife and child I would shrug my shoulders and say oh well. I would defend to the death my closest friends.

'I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man'.......Unknown

fourpaws56 · ‎03-04-2015

@chiclet wrote:
My husband and I are alone without any close relatives. At holidays it is just the two of us and we feel like we are the only ones. We just dread the Christmas holidays.

oh, don't dread them, you are blessed to have each-other