I agree. I think this can breed resentment, particularly when you have a family member you don't really like but feel the need to spend time with or help out just because they're "family".pricklypurple wrote: ↑08 Oct 2020, 16:27 I think we often feel an obligation to our blood relations.
Do you think free will man-made relations are stronger than blood relations??
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Re: Do you think free will man-made relations are stronger than blood relations??
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Blood relations can be a fool's game in that you happen to be birthed into a particular clan, however pleasant, aweful, or privileged.
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Like you well mentioned most of our closed blood relations are imposed. And are for that reason not as strong as those formed willingly through attractions and similarities.Aishwarya Chhabra wrote: ↑03 Sep 2020, 05:30 Relations formed as a result of circumstances, attractions, similarities out of free will sometimes travel long periods of our lifetimes than our sometimes imposed closest blood relations. This is something that happened among the three- Kalayla , Maureen and Lena in KALAYLA .What are your opinions??
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I’ve never heard that! Thank you for informing me!hellonewuser wrote: ↑05 Sep 2020, 02:36 "I wish everyone knew the entire saying. It's not 'blood is thicker than water,' it's 'the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.' Meaning relationships built by choice are stronger than those built by birth."Only those relations are the one you should care which are true to you not because of need of you"
I know so many people that don’t have love in their families. I think that situation makes it very possible to have more loyalty and caring for chosen family than blood family.
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