Family

–noun

1.	parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.

2.	the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.

3.	the spouse and children of one person: We're taking the family on vacation next week.

4.	any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family.

5.	all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor.

6.	Chiefly British. approved lineage, esp. noble, titled, famous, or wealthy ancestry: young men of family.

7.	a group of persons who form a household under one head, including parents, children, and servants.

8.	the staff, or body of assistants, of an official: the office family.

9.	a group of related things or people: the family of romantic poets; the halogen family of elements.

10.	a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together: Many hippie communes of the sixties regarded themselves as families.

11.	a group of products or product models made by the same manufacturer or producer.

12.	Biology. the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usually consisting of several genera.

13.	Slang. a unit of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra operating in one area under a local leader.

14.	Linguistics. the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely spoken families of languages. Compare stock (def. 12), subfamily (def. 2).

15.	Mathematics. a. a given class of solutions of the same basic equation, differing from one another only by the different values assigned to the constants in the equation. b. a class of functions or the like defined by an expression containing a parameter. c. a set.

Reading this, I do wonder what the one true definition of 'family' actually is. I mean I used to think it was defined by those related to you and naturally cared about your well being. How wrong have I been?

Ever since moving back to Cardiff my dear mother has appeared to only care when I am at home, but the minute I am back in Cardiff she doesn't give two shits. It is really starting to hurt now, seeing her blatently avoiding me. Signing out of messenger the moment I sign in, the same with facebook and when ever I try to ring her she lets it go straight through to the answer phone. Yes I do leave messages, not that they are returned, the same goes for my emails.

I just don't know what I have done for her to treat me like this.

So much for 'Always'. I remember clearly the day she dedicated the song to my sister and me just after my parents split. I was sat in the kitchen with my sister and she rang asking my dad to turn the radio on. We sat there listening and then the song came on. Right now I am thinking she is the biggest hypocrite I have met.



My mum, my sister and me went to see Bon Jovi a few years back and they played this. My mum said that it meant the world to her that we were both there, I really am doubting that now. I'm doubting everything she has said to me.