Family Bonds

While reading the family bonds section of the textbook, I felt a lot of connections with that section. I can understand why living with families may harm a relationship, but I also feel it can bring your relationship closer as well. I know after college, I am moving back home and living at home for a while until I feel stable enough to move out and be on my own. I also love being home and my family situation is different than others so going home for me I feel would not hurt my relationship with my parents or siblings. Since my family is within three miles of each other (including grandparents, aunts and uncles), we are constantly around each other. Since I've been away at college, my sister and I have gotten closer. We are both easily angered and if we start bickering with each other it both ends in yelling. My brother and I on the other hand have never had a fight before. I think part of that is our age difference along with us both being very alike with our personalities. I think comparing America to other countries such as Germany, Americans hold a closer family value than they may. I know my friend who lives in Germany doesn’t live with her parents and hasn’t for a few years since she can have her own apartment. I know I am extremely lucky to have the family I do, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.