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Who comes first your friends or family.

Personally i think family comes first. i have a good friend that is hated by my mum becouse my friends mum had a argument with my mum (dont know why) and now i cant be seen with him.

Debate!!

I would put generic friends after family and even close friends I have only known for a year or so. However I would put my best friend before my family every time.

Me and her are so very close that we are like sisters (or mother and daughter). I can confide things to her and I feel that I am free to talk to her in an open way. There are many things I would never feel I could talk about with my parents. My best friend looks after me when I am not living with my parents and makes sure that I am eating well and am up to date with everything in my life. She looks after me as much as my mother does.

I do love my family and I would never want to hurt them, but I love my best friend just as much and would put her first in most situations.

I would have to say they're both equally important to me.
But honestly I'd probably worry about my friends more.

That really varies among different people =3

In my case, I'd pick any of my friends over the majority of my family. The only family members I would pick over my friends are my grandparents and all the other seniors in the family. They're all good people. But my parents, brother, aunties, and uncles, I wouldn't. No way.

I'd have a hard time when it comes to my cousins though since they practically are my friends :]

That depends on the type of person you are, and usually your age.

As a teenager you'll want to spend more and more time with your best friends or friends and not so much with your family. It doesn't mean you don't love them, but it means you're trying to be more independant.

I'm thirteen, and I know I'd rather hang out with my friends than my family any day, but I still love my parents and family to death. I'd do practically anything for them, as I would for my best friends.

I would put my best friends before my family only slightly. When I'm older it will probably change, though.

For me, it varies as to which member/part of the family you're talking about. Part of my family is full of people who aren't nice at all and are very rude to me, so I'd put my friends first. But if it's family of mine that I love, they go before my friends any day.

Depends on who and what it is

Both are extremely important to me, but my own judgement comes before them both. In the case of having to choose a side, I'll base my decision off of my own beliefs instead of off of who I like more. And if the situation is deciding who gets priority of spending time with me, it completely depends upon the situation.

I will never automatically put one before the other simply because of who they are. That right there is just asking for trouble.

I have a few friends I'd put before my family. I tell my best friend everything-he's like the male version of me. Where as my mom likes to make rude comments whenever I try to tell a story, and my dad likes to lecture me about something pretty much unrelated when I talk to him.

The few great friends I have, they come before family (unless it was my cousins Brandon or Julie, they always come first to me before my friends, because I only see them once a year and they're my favorite cousins. They're
really the best ever~), my boyfriend and best friend come first before everyone, and um... my not so good friends/aquaintances come after family. I think my mum comes last, pretty much, for personal reasons, and my dad falls somewhere before her and after my good friends.

Something like that. Dx

Either way, my best friend and my boyfriend are the first to know absolutely everything, and I don't necessarily tell everything I tell them to anyone else. It's actually pretty rare to tell anyone else much about me, because I'm really secretive. I don't like it when people know too much, because that means they've gotten too close to me, and I only let two people get real close. They're the only two I'd trust with my life. Yep.

• My family is more important to me, then it's my friends.

I love my friends and I love my family. In no case will my friends ever come before my children or my parents but I would put friends before some of my extended family.

I guess it would depend on the situation. Either way, it's not a conflict I usually face so I try not to form an opinion based on a non-existent hypothetical situation.

I think that both my friends and my family are on the same level of importance to me.

They both have their pros and cons that make them good and bad in different types of situations.

Friends:

• Pros:

The good ones will always be there for you. They do everything with you, and make you feel on top of the world. They're easy to laugh with, and are fun to talk to and hang out with. Having friends make you feel important, and sometimes boosts my self-confidence. For example, seeing a movie. Seeing a movie by myself would be boring, but with a friend, it would be so much more than just a movie. It would be a little like an adventure, kind of. Even if that sounded kind of cheesy...^^;;. Also, if you're doing things in public, having friends sometime enable you to do things that you wouldn't normally do in public. Like spin around in circles and dance out of the blue. Also, you'd have people in your age group. If you were to talk about boys, gossip, school, teachers, subjects, homework, people, etc., it's obviously going to be easier to talk to friends about it than your family. You could also have some experiences together that could be everlasting memories. (that sounded really cheesy...^^;;; )

• Cons:

Sometimes, you end up picking bad friends. They could be two-faced, and they would talk about you behind your back. They could be a burden, being clingy and wanted to do too much with you. They might want to spend the night at your house ALWAYS, or use you, even. They could have you do things you don't want to, and sometimes could be a bad influence.

Family:

Pros: They're never going to leave you. I mean, unless something happens to them or if they move out, get divorced, etc. But they're always going to be family, no matter what. Your parents have raised you ever since you were born, and you could talk to them about a lot of things you take seriously and wouldn't be able to talk with your friends.

Cons: Sometimes they get annoying.

It truly depends.

Though IMO, I would stand up for the one who's more "right" should both parties end up wanting attention/time.

I'm mature -or so I would like to believe I am!- enough to tell which party needs my time or not.

It's all relative.

I was brought up in a collectivist family--and yet I prize my friends over them.

It is so unusual to have such a strong support system of unrelated people that... I don't know it feels so much better than my family.

My family want something specific for me that I just don't see happening... but my friends want the best for me. It's a war between the two.

i love my friends because they dont boss me around, and they always around me and they dont judge me... and they dont yell at me....
sometimes i hate my family...... my sisters are bossy..... they always want me to stay away from my friends T_T, i hate my family but though i love them somewhere in my heart...
anyway i think Family comes first "-.-

Well, my family is very imporant to me and so are my friends (friend).
I care about them alot and honestly, if I were in a situation to save either my friend or my family, i'd die to or give myself away to save them both. <3

Family always comes first, ALWAYS. i count significant others as family.
Unless of course it's something bad.

Family, definitely. I've known them the longest... you can be so open within your family in a way you can never be among friends...

Because it doesn't matter what happens, as you'll always be family.

• Family of course ^^;;; They've been there forever and they;ll always be there in most cases. friends are more complicated, you cant really find unconditional love with friends, except some rare cases maybe...
  But me, i know i have unconditional love from my mother/father at the least

It's relative.

You should rely with the one you were raised up with and the one that has gained your trust better.

it depends.

I wouldn't put any regular friends before my family, because my mom took care of me and my brother by herself for eight years, now.

i would put my boyfriend, who is also my best friend, before my family.
this is because, my mom has materialistic values, and she's always verbally abusing me.
I would never put my father before anyone, besides an enemy, because i haven't SEEN him in eight years!
After cheating on my mom and doing in her house, and subjecting my brother and I to guns when we were four years old, thus making my mom the bitter, heartless woman she is now, I wouldn't put him before many people!
My boyfriend is the single most important person in my life. the only way I would put anyone before him, would be if he was in the wrong or something.

If your family is important to you and everyone in your family is supportive and loving then family should be your first priority. Friends come and go, but family always remains.

If your family isn't supportive, but rather abusive both mentally and/or physically, then your friends should be your first priority.

I'm not too sure, my brother is a pain in the ass and always curses at my mom and my dad hits everyone and criticize my mom all the time. :x