Insofar as other people are always a bit alien to you (family included — maybe family ESPECIALLY) asking this question sort of turns you into an astronaut exploring a crater on a nearby planet. By walking around in the crater, you learn more about that planet but you also learn more about what OTHER BODY bumped into it right there at that site. I can’t help but see family as exactly that: a bunch of foreign bodies all brought into each other’s orbits, denting one another, shaping one another, launching one another on very particular paths – sometimes intended and sometimes not.

Source: WBQ Original adapted from a relationship question on this crappy site with some surprisingly good questions

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