You can choose your friends but.......

[Smowball]

you can't choose your family. I've heard that said so often. So you can love somebody because they are a relative/family, but that doesn't mean you have to like them. Do any of you have family that you genuinely don't like?

[Duncer]

Oh yes!

[gness]

As Duncer with extra !!!!!!!!

[EvianBaby]

Plenty. Me and my Mum walked past each other in Tesco a couple of weeks ago. To the rest of the world we were complete strangers.

I also can't stand one of my sisters but I keep up the pretence because I love her kids.

[snags]

None I dislike. Some extended family I don't think much of but I never see them so it is not a problem.

[Duncer]

I haven't seen or spoken to my brother since my sister's funeral in 1995, and I prefer it that way.

[Smowball]

So it's not just me then lol.

[daffy654]

Most of my siblings and my mum, I can't stand them. I don't love or like them.

[paddywak]

None I genuinely don't like, but some I tend to avoid if possible, one cousin for instance almost certainly murdered his father but the police couldn't get that final link to prove it, though another cousin an ex police man tells me cases such as this are regularly reviewed as new techniques are developed. Another branch of the family are religious fanatics. R.C's they do 200 mile round trip as they don't believe a mass is real unless it's in Latin and the rest of us are all going to burn in hell.If you meet them as individuals they're OK, but if they catch you at a family get together when they're all together they're worse then the JW's

[paddywak]

Forgot to add that my two sisters and our immediate families are very close. I find it hard to imagine a reason that would make us fall out that badly that we didn't talk.

[888sally888]

Have a sister I don't like - such a selfish person.

[Smowball]

What about children? (grown up ones!)

[888sally888]

My girls are 24/22/22 and 20 and we all get on great - would hate to fall out with my kids.

[maggiebee]

I dislike my daughter in law but...... without her I wouldn't have my two gorgeous grandchildren so I put up with her jibes and tantrums for their sakes.

[daffy654]

I love my eldest daughter but don't really like her very much. She is the laziest and dirtiest person I know. I didn't bring her up that way and it really annoys me.

[maggiebee]

Forgot about my two "brothers". Haven't spoken to either since my dad's funeral in 2001 and hope I never have to.

[Smowball]

One of my son's ,I hate to say, is the most selfish, foul tempered,ungrateful, manipulative person I think I have ever met. None of his brothers and sisters are like that. I love him but he is simply not a nice person to be around.

[Smowball]

Oh and dont see my brother either, but my sister and I are very close.

[RATTER15]

I cant say that "I dont like" any members of my family, I certainly prefer some to others though.

[joeluke]

The ones you don't like are those who the 'special' 29p birthday cards in Card Factory are made for

I send my sister one every year

[LoftyLottie]

Actually, I quite like all my blood relatives, but there is one sister in law that neither myself or Mr LL like (his sister and he certainly doesn't love her either). Haven't been in touch for 20 years and not likely to ever be in touch again.