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My family? Have my back? Not a chance!
My family has a glorious tradition of emotional abuse and blackmail, cutting each other out of their lives over imagined slights, decades long gaps between seeing each other, and extremely poor communication skills.
If you are blessed with a warm loving supportive family, then yes your premise is probably right. But if you have a dysfunctional family chances are your friends are FAR more likely to come to your aid, drop what they're doing to help, and be a shoulder for you to lean on.
That said, I cling to no one. People come and go through my life and I am fine with that for the most part. Like Linen53 I am alone a lot, but rarely lonely. I cherish my alone time. Better to be alone than in the midst of a quarrelsome group of "family."
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