Close to family

I'm close to my family but we're not extremely close knit, we give each other alot of room to grow up individually. I love each of them and as Rick said i wouldn't change my family for the world

Im close to my parents but not as close to my sister, we have never been close though even as tots

I am not close to my parents at all, it's always been that way, even when I way a baby/toddler I was always very distant from them. I'm close enough to my brother, but not close enough to tell him everything that's going on in my life. We joke around together, have similar film preferences etc, but any more personal things don't get discussed. However, he would know more about me & my life than our parents would, and vice versa.

I am close to my mother and thats it, my family has shunned me the black sheep because I have a mental illness, even though its controlled through medication.

I try to be close to my parents to set a good example for my children but it is hard because they have never been very open minded or the touchy feeling kind of parents. Especially my mom, she has her own issues with her past and has never opened up about them. My 'dad' is my step dad, I never met my biological dad since my mom has never opened up about him either.
I have one younger brother and I am no at all close to him because he is the total opposite of me. My parents have sheltered him too much and so now he is a bum and momma's boy and not in a good way either.
The rest of my extended family lives in various states and the last time I saw one of them was about 3 years ago.

I wasn't. I was really selfish way back until a series of events made me think of how much my parents sacrificed for me, and still is.
I give my mom monthly allowance now, which I didn't before.. I saved up and bought my dad an iPad2 for his birthday (Which I definitely wouldn't in the past). I'm only getting a very small allowance for serving the army so this is a lot of work for me.

Well.. just a lot of thing happened and events after events I see my parents suffer more and more. Then it just started to kick into me.

I'm not really close to anyone as I find it very hard to trust people, a lot has gone on in my life and not many people want to listen or anything and when they do its hard to trust them in case they go and twist things round like most people have done to me over the years. I used to be very close to my mum until she started to hide things from me which is very painful when I found out the truth about things, since then its been very hard for me to trust her or anyone really.

I have been very close to my families (parents and sister) since i was born.
They have been supporting me all the time and i cant appreciate them more.
I feel blessed to have them in my life.

Yes, I am very close to my family, closer than my friends. They are always there for me. How I wish they're always with me through out my life.

In my country and in our culture, we are oriented towards the family. Family always come first. Personally, I am proud to say that we are enjoying a strong familial bond -- through trials and triumphs. Having a family to lean is always one of the best thing there is in this world -- something even money can never provide.

I have certain friends that I consider family. I don't believe in being superficially nice to someone...just because...technically I'm related to them. I don't hold grudges and I have a great attitude toward family members but I don't feel unusually close to any of them. I have a natural bond with certain people and if it doesn't exist...I don't pretend...or force anything. There's a sense of freedom in being able to flow with the current.

I've been close to my family for as long as I remember. I live really far away from them and I call them up every single day and we'd talk for hours. I have a great relationship with them, and while no family is perfect, I love mine and cherish them so much. I'm so very thankful for having them in my life.