Who do you love?

andygb

I love my wife (and her mother and family abroad), but sadly do not love my relations in the UK. We have had several instances of people taking us for granted over the years, repaying our kindness with threats (including violence), blackmail and defamation. We have been unfortunate, but I always look at my past and realise that over the years, I have had friends (and their families) who have treated me much better than my own immediate family.

harrys_nan

apart from my kids and grandsons who mean the world to me, I love my dog, she has been a such a comfort to me when times have been horrible, she is now 15 and slowing coming to the end

shoppaholic_returns

I love my mum, my hubby, my niece and nephew and my brother.

I love my cats and darling dog.

I certainly don't love my mother in law and sister in law, they are pretty poisonous!

System

I love my children, my grandchildren and my man.:)

tea_lover

I love my parents, sister, niece and grandad. I still very much love my nan, who died in 2008. I love my OH but it's different - it feels more complicated and like hard work at times.

The only one of those I tell is probably my niece. My family is very close (I've just been away with them and had a brilliant time) but we just don't tend to tell each other, it's so obvious we don't need to. The only time I remember my parents and sister telling me they loved me was when I recently lost a baby.

Tiglath

Interesting question that's made me think. I love my hubby and stepkids, my adoptive family, my birth family, my in-laws, my two BFFs, my cats, my hubby's ex-wife, and actually my boss who's an amazing friend and allround fabulous woman. I don't say the L-word very often, and would never say it to some of them, but those are the people whose absence would diminish my life and for whom I would go that extra mile. Family has always been an extended net rather than a closed unit to me.

SailorSam

Ermm i've got a Paddington sitting on a chair in the corner,
I love him.

PasturesNew

I love nobody.

fluffnutter

It's sort of like a concentric circle with OH and son in the middle, then in the next ring mum, dad, brother, then in the next SIL, nephew, niece, then aunt, uncle, cousins, MIL etc. Sometimes friends might move into the outer rings for a while but it's quite a fluid thing.

TBH, it's only really the deaths of OH, son, mum, dad and brother that would crucify me. If anyone else died, despite my loving them, I'd feel more sorrow on behalf of someone else that I love than myself, e.g. if SIL died, I'd be devastated but a lot of that would be because of the effect it has on my brother.

That's how I measure love - how would I feel if someone died? Pretty morbid when you think about it

SailorSam

PasturesNew wrote: »

I love nobody.

Not even me ?