There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.
I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.
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