Parents stayed married til my dad died.
That is the only nuclear bit.. my parents never divorced.
Both my sister's are a lot older than me. Oldest is 33, and the middle is 31. The oldest was born five days after my parents got married 
I hope to be like my parents one day, married and still happy after all that time.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
Examples! My cousin is insane! She's never home and drove my uncle into alcoholism! He's since bounced back but she has suffered multiple pregnancies, bouncing between boyfriends and possible gang activity. Oh, and the way she treats my uncle is absolutely insane. She was adopted, and he loves her, but she abuses that fact... she comes home once a week, if he's lucky, basically only to sleep, get food, and get money. Then she goes and is an asshole again. Rargh, because when we were little she was actually really fun 
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My grandma tried to kill my grandpa. He's worth a lot of money and she basically left him in his bed for days without food, water, or care. He was discovered two days later in horrible condition by my aunt. Yarg.
My nona's dead, and she was, like, one of the pillars of the family. The one thing that was holding my crazy italian side away from being, well, crazy. Everyone misses her, and things have been going slowly downhill from there .
And in-family... well, here, I'm the odd one out. I very often get the impression my family would fare a whole lot better without me messing things up. Mom, dad and my brother are so alike it's scary, while I'm just sorta... here. I'm like an alien or adopted or something. Other than physical appearance very little links us... they're all crazy musicians, while I slowly lsot my taste for music in general and go into a state of mental atrophy when they sing/play things. THey're, great, driven people with a lust for life and I'm just... sorta here. I don't really care about much, leech off their stuff and make odd requests every so often. If I were to move out soon, it'd be to see what would happen to them, how much they'd prosper, without me there to hold them back.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
What really screws up the average is Jajahotep...she's a freaky lil girly.
*cough* well..
..fine.
1 younger brother. former pothead acid dropper, cleaned up his act when Mother threw him out of the apartment.
it's my other family that screws me up.
a cousin who's 15 and has a kid by a 22 year old guy who's in jail for beating her.
My grampa died almost 7 years ago, my step gramma never re-married... my real gramma is in an insane asylum in the city next to us, and my dad won't tell me where in there she is so I can go visit. (She's my mom's real mom, we dont' talk about her)
an uncle whos in the states hiding from the police because he tried to rape my cousins...
I have over 400 family members ranging from mom and dad to cousins...
12 siblings on my mom's side, eight on my dads....
And I'm an only child who still doesn't know if 12 is the right number, my mom always mentions these people "aunt jessica" or somewhat... I'm like "who are they?" and she tells me "oh you have another aunt/uncle"
O_o I think 12 is right for now...
I tried to do a full family tree in grade seven, and ran out of paper. I had over 20 pieces stuck together and I couldn't fit them all on those pages (mom and dad's side)
Parents still married with three kids. Two grandmas who are perfectly well.
We're just swell
Other than the bitterness there, My family are pretty rocking. Mom's crazy, my brother and sister are annoying at times, but we all have a laugh. I have a lot of family In Canada, some of whom i've not met, other's I haven't seen since I was 7, and some flew over to invade our shores last year.
Hooray for Rowledges!
Lived with my mother and sister until one of my mother's *cough* boyfriends moved in. I wound up being thrown out at the age of 16 since it was going to be me or him and I wasn't gonna play fair. SOB would bitch my mother our because I did something he didn't like. Even minor shit like setting my feet on the couch (fuck, I was LAYING DOWN) would set him off for hour long bitch-fests with my mother. I told my mom that dad would kill the fucker if he ever hit her and that I told him specifically he'd have to beat me to him.
My mother is now on her 3rd marriage.
My dad is no where to be seen. Last heard from him a couple of years ago when he was getting ready to move. He needed help and I told him to give me a call and I'd be more than glad to help. He vanished without a trace a couple of months later.
My sister decided to get married *and* join the Navy to get away from home after she hit 18 (and spent 4 years as the only child. My mother never realized how good a kid I was till she had to deal with my sister 24/7). Failed out of Basic with a sprained anlke, had marriage annuled because the guy was a total jackass. Bounced from job to job, roommates to roommates then found another guy to latch on to. Decent guy, they set a wedding date. Shortly before the wedding (and after he's spent a couple of grand on her in car payments, rent and a $500 non-wedding dress) she says something about needing more space. Fight ensues, marriage is off. My sister then discovers that she's really been a lesbian all this time and runs off to Amarillo to shack up with her new girlfriend. Since my mother has a bad reaction to this news the whole family is automatically against her and written off as scum of the earth. Nice.
As for me, well... Fiancee left me in '97, first born daughter was forcibly stripped from me and put up for adoption and I've basically been getting by since. Fuck the world at large, as long as I have an internet link and a decent computer I'm ok. Eat, Sleep, Masturbate, Compute... that's about all.
Yeah, my family's a real winner. This is just the immediate family. This isn't getting into issues between my mother and her siblings or between her and her father. Not to mention the PTSD shit my dad deals with from his past in the military (he's listed as 100% disabled now).
She's only 16 now, and moved out at 15 to work with horses.
That's made life a little weird, but nothing too bad.
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Arrenn Lightblade had this to say about Captain Planet:
Both parents are alive and still happy together. Heh, our family of 4 never really had any problems.
