The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My family is more important than my party.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.
I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.
That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.
I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
I don't have a problem if somebody who has never met me wants to say that I wouldn't be where I was today without my family because you know what? They may be right.
Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.