Friends are more important than family. Yes, your family raise and feed you, but your friends truly accept you for who you are. Your friends can disown you any time they please, while your parents are stuck with you until they kick you out, or you finally let go. amirite?

Friends come and go.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Get better friends.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's a fact of life! You move on. Like going to college you lose touch with a bunch of friends in high school, you just make new ones and move on.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Family is forever.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not when the family blood line ends.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Unless the disown you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if you have a shitty family?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Your friends can disown you any time they please". Precisely. And it happens often too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i can't really agree or disagree. to me, my friends kinda ARE my second family. i feel like sometimes, you're just more yourself around friends.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if your family consists of your best friends?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Same here, my friend's mom even calls me "the adopted kid" sometimes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Family is there for you when friends aren't.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My friends are there when my family never is.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly, my friends are there for me more than my family.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My best friends "disowned" me in 6th grade. I wasn't "rich" or "popular" or "sporty" enough. Yes, I made new friends that I love to death, but as much as we refuse to admit it, we're not as close as we were. Many people lose friends after high school or college. Family is almost always there.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no one can understand you better than your family

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My family doesn't know shit about me. My friends know me better than anyone.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My family has kicked me out before because of "my feelings" and my "actions" about certain things. If they can't accept those things, then they cannot accept me at all.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Families make mistakes too. But most friends are quicker to turn on your than family.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You shouldn't do anything to piss off your friends.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sometimes doing the right thing will make your friends angry. But if your statement were true, then the same at least should apply to your family.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sometimes being yourself will makes your family upset. But your friends pick you for who you are. your family cannot pick you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And friends can change their minds. You change. My family has always accepted me, despite some big mistakes. I have friends who do the same thing. They are both important for different things. But when it comes down to it, I'll pick my family over my friends every time, and I'd expect them to do the same.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just can't be okay with my family like that. :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree. I love my friends, but I know I can always go to my family.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It just depends on how good of a relationship with said family or friends you have. Like does anyone really think someone who has a deadbeat dad that left when they were a baby and a mom on serious drugs that dissappears for weeks at a time will be more attached to a couple of good friends, or their family? (this is purely hypothetical, but you get the idea). And i agree with KittyNinja, because sometimes i feel like my friends are better siblings to me than my actual sibling or parents.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This post is really stupid. :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WTF!? Whoever wrote this must be really messed up and have a horrible family!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, no. I have an okay family. Nobodies family is perfect. It's just after the stuff i have been through, my friends accept me for who i am while im stuck with my parents. Friends choose you, while your family cannot.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Most friends, regardless of how faithful, have a limit. Screw up often enough and they will be gone. But typically with family, that love is unconditional and no matter what you do, your family is going to be the group that is always there.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if they kicked you out?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Here in the Midwestern United States, if you're gay, your family disowns you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

pretty much..

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm from Texas. I understand the stupidity of homophobia, trust me. But honestly, as far as kicking you out is concerned, a lot of the time, it is justified. It's called discipline. Your friends aren't going to discipline you even when it's very necessary. Your parents have your best interests in mind.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm from Texas too, and im straight. But sometimes parents take it way to far with "discipline." Leaving your child with bruises all over their body doesn't seem much of a good reminder of a lesson.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Obviously there are awful parents. I'm entirely aware of this. But more often than not, your parents are going to be there for you when your friends aren't.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

With terrible, horrible advice.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Depends on the family. I have a very loving, supporting family! Sure we fight, but at the end of the day we love each other. My parents give me amazing advice and when they don't know the answer they will find someone who does as soon as possible. My friends are great, but they cannot replace my family. After high school my best friend moved across the country and we are no where near as close as we used to be. After high school we move on. We get new friends and must say goodbye to some of the old. My family is the only people that has stuck by me from birth until now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

everything about this post is wrong, all wrong. i guess it just depends on your situation though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THIS POST IS STUPID. nuff said.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're stupid for not accepting other peoples opinions.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Im here...Jesse.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you still never message me, hoe.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm sorry. I try better...I promise, I feel horrible now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I disagree, because a lot of friends, whether you like it or not, do just come and go, even if they are good friends, its happened to me often enough.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and by the way, happy belated bday

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thank you :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's true. Interests change, people part ways whether from a fight or just different stages of life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my family.. They never support me for who i am. I'm a serious athlete, but my mother is making me quit because she thinks that it's a waste of time and i'll never make it in the athletic world. My family never believes in what i do, my parents basically have my life planned out so that i'll be successful and they'll be able to boast, they never asked me what i want. My friends are there for me, all the time, and its true i don't trust them as much as i could, for many have gone and/or stabbed me in the back, but they're always there for me; more than my parents or family.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(.): Im sorry to hear that, I hope things work out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my family is a piece of shit, i don't even know my real dad (don't want to either). he's a bloody jerk who left, so i will fucking wholeheartedly agree with this. at least my mates are there. you can't choose family anyway.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OP needs to stop bitching and moaning. You probably live in a big ass house in the suburbs in a mostly white neighborhood. The biggest problem you have is picking out clothes for tomorrow. Suck it up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hey Faggot's ass, this post has nothing to do with where someone lives or the way they act. I grew a white kid in nigger and spic infested neighborhoods and the people that had my back the most were my friends, and I love my friends probably more than my family. Oh yeah, and I fucked your dad last night.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Im going to go with the assumption that youre a little ignorant brat. Yes, i do live in the suburbs. But im middle class. Also, i don't worry about materialistic things such as clothes. Why do I need to "suck it up" when people bitch and whine about useless shit on here, all the time? You need to hush your mouth and actually learn what the hell youre talking about before you spill your words, then make yourself look like an ass.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

GUYS. Let's just accept that SOME people have amazing, caring families and SOME people have crappy, unsupportive families, and that SOME people have amazing, caring, loyal friends and SOME people have crappy, two-faced friends, or no friends at all at the moment. For that matter, some people may have no family left. Different things for different people because different people are in different situations.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think this summed it up pretty well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Friends grow apart. It's a sad fact of life. But families can fall apart too. So I guess I can't vote.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

to me, my friends will always be more to me than my family... they're the ones that know me the best and love me for who I am, not who they think I am.

by Anonymous 13 years ago