The Friday Five for 13 August 2021: A Family Set

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1. Did you grow up with your parents together as a unit?

2. Did you reach adulthood with four living grandparents?

3. Is your extended family a close one or not?

4. Does your family have a 'black sheep'?

5. What is your first memory of a family member that is not your mother(s) or father(s)?

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[elle]

1. Did you grow up with your parents together as a unit?

No. My parents separated when I was 6 and divorced when I was 7.

2. Did you reach adulthood with four living grandparents?

Yes, and all were alive when I had my eldest daughter who knew her great grandparents.

3. Is your extended family a close one or not?

Not really. There isn't much extended family to have. I have one aunt and one uncle and no cousins. I have a lot of distant relatives that I now know and have online friendships with but nothing massively close.

4. Does your family have a 'black sheep'?

If there was a black sheep, I was probably it but it depends on what you mean by that. I had a great uncle who served time in prison for killing a police officer. I suppose he could be considered something of a black sheep. If you just mean bucking trends and taking risks, that would be me.

5. What is your first memory of a family member that is not your mother(s) or father(s)?

I remember having my picture taken with my great grandmother when I was about 6 months old. A month or two later she died.

[waitingman]

Read all about the dead relatives!! https://waitingman.dreamwidth.org/622915.html

[archersangel]

https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/320004.html

[minoanmiss]

I was a bit terse.

https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/783902.html

[versailles_rose]

https://versailles-rose.dreamwidth.org/3402439.html

[intothisshadow]

https://intothisshadow.dreamwidth.org/517980.html

[hafnia]

This turned into a talk about Therapy and Dealing With The Relationship With My Parents, oh well. https://hafnia.dreamwidth.org/1423392.html

[smallhobbit]

My response is here

[ahunter3]

1. Did you grow up with your parents together as a unit?

Yes.

2. Did you reach adulthood with four living grandparents?

No, my Dad's dad died when I was 13, and his Mom followed a few months later.

3. Is your extended family a close one or not?

Less so now than when I was a kid, I think... we were like a hybrid of the Waltons and the Ewings.

4. Does your family have a 'black sheep'?

Well, me of course :)

5. What is your first memory of a family member that is not your mother(s) or father(s)?

My sister, who is just two years younger. I interacted with grandparents earlier than that but I don't have *memories* going back to before I was two. Or not the kind that I can be clear on what it is that I'm remembering if you know what I mean.