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Originally Posted by Blossom
I really think it's just crazy! I was raised Family is Family. You can't pick them but you stand by them no matter what.
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It's nice for folks who are raised this way and it holds true.
But that really doesn't hold true for everyone.
My dad's wife is just that...she's not been and never has been my "mother". Same for my mom's late husband. Might have been different if I'd ever lived with either of them, but to me it's just not the same.
And when my folks divorced, my dad's big-close-spend-every-holiday-together dropped up like hot potatoes.
So "family" to me has come to mean other things - it's the people in my life that really did stick by me no matter what. Has nothing to do with blood or legal papers.
I can understand there being all kinds of reasons for not wanting to claim a relationship. What I don't understand is why she'd choose to lie about something that's easy to disprove. It just makes her look catty. She could have said something polite without having to gush over it.