Do you consider friends to be family?

[Calebark]

Do you consider friends to be family?

Family are meant to be supportive, warm, and always there for you. If your friends are all of these, and you feel you're super close, do you consider them to be family? Can they join your family, or even replace them?

[sweetiepi]

Do you consider friends to be family?

Family are meant to be supportive, warm, and always there for you. If your friends are all of these, and you feel you're super close, do you consider them to be family? Can they join your family, or even replace them?

In my opinion, friends can most certainly be considered family, especially if they're super close, and are supportive, warm, and nearly always cheering you on. I have a family friend who's really close to me, who I call aunt, and I wouldn't have it any other way. She's been looking out for us for as long as I can remember- always getting the latest goss and always encouraging us, no matter what. I also have other friends that I consider family, the kind of family where I can be myself 24/7- even if I complain too much.

That being said, AN is a family- need I say more?

[EEEEEEP]

Do you consider friends to be family?

Family are meant to be supportive, warm, and always there for you. If your friends are all of these, and you feel you're super close, do you consider them to be family? Can they join your family, or even replace them?

That's a fairly loaded questions that makes my head hurt =)

Would a friend do things like pay your bills, give you a home to live on etc? I don't know.

Saying that , friends (whom are kind of like family) are people that will be there for you 24/7 and will be there in strife! I would consider them family <3.

[Shadowxo]

I once heard "Friends are the family you choose for yourself". I think some friends can certainly replace family, but they can be difficult to find. I don't think I've ever had such a close relationship with a friend that I would consider them family, but people like that are certainly out there. Family are the people who look out for you and care for you whenever you need them to. This isn't limited to blood, but can certainly be done by friends, if you can find the right people

[Bri MT]

I've had some friends who are much closer to me than some family members and vice versa. I definitely believe that friends can be family. Of course, not all friends fall into this category but there's also some people I'm closely related to who I don't consider family

[Calebark]

That being said, AN is a family- need I say more?

Fam <3

That's a fairly loaded questions that makes my head hurt =)

Would a friend do things like pay your bills, give you a home to live on etc? I don't know.

Saying that , friends (whom are kind of like family) are people that will be there for you 24/7 and will be there in strife! I would consider them family <3.

I've had friends give me a place to live in times of strife, and I've given friends a place to live in times of strife. In fact, the best home life I have ever had wasn't with family -- it was with my best friend and her family for about 6 weeks. Conversely, other than my siblings, I don't have any family that would do those things. Additionally, I can say that these say friends would be there for me 24/7 with emotional support too.

I once heard "Friends are the family you choose for yourself". I think some friends can certainly replace family, but they can be difficult to find. I don't think I've ever had such a close relationship with a friend that I would consider them family, but people like that are certainly out there. Family are the people who look out for you and care for you whenever you need them to. This isn't limited to blood, but can certainly be done by friends, if you can find the right people

I think this definitely takes a lot of time. Perhaps for most people, they wouldn't be close to their family if they weren't (typically) forced to spend their first decade-and-a-half with them almost everyday.

[Wales]

I like to think of the term "family" as defining one by blood relations. Just because one is family does not mean they may be necessarily close, although that's the connotation and hence why we call this place a family

We may refer to friends as family at times because they provide us with that sense of comfort, love and care that our families provide. I think that should be expected of a genuine friend. In that sense, yeah they are family. They share the expected qualities of a families. 

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=family

Family derives from the latin word familia which essentially means under one household and has very little original connotation of love as we know it.

[brenden]

I once heard "Friends are the family you choose for yourself".

I'd do more for some of my friends than I would do for some of my family.

I feel like there are 'friends' - people to hang out with, and then there are friend-friends; people who have gone beyond the tipping point who I'd do anything for. Being blood related isn't enough to get someone over that tipping point though.

But for the purpose of your question, yeah, definitely consider some friends to be family.

[Calebark]

Being blood related isn't enough to get someone over that tipping point though.

Definitely agree here. All it does is give them a head start on earning that trust.