Friday, May 01, 2009

I wonder if there are acquaintances within large families

When I think about large families - like families with 8 or 10 or 12 kids - the thing that baffles me the most is that I can't imagine how someone could be emotionally close to that many people. For the kind of closeness where you're dependent on each other and you can't lie to each other and they truly have the ability to hurt you, I can't do more than five or six people max.

So within these large families, there must be relationships that are closer and relationships that are less close. So I wonder if any of these are acquaintance relationships? Kind of like someone at work whom you have nothing against but just don't ever end up talking to very much.

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