I don't have any feelings for my family?

Is it normal? I have no idea. However, this is just about exactly how I feel about my family. I appreciate what they've done/are doing for me, I want the best for them, and I help them out when I can, but...I don't think any of that fully encapsulates love. I know they love me--my mother, especially--but I can't muster up that feeling for them/her. It makes me feel sort of sick to think about--how someone can care so much about someone else who, unbeknownst to them, doesn't reciprocate that care. (I don't mean that as an insult to you, OP--it's just something I think about sometimes.) If this upsets you as it does me, I'm sorry. Regardless, good luck.

I'm glad someone posted this... I feel exactly the same way. I'm grateful and everything, but to be honest I dont give a flying F@cK about any of them. I imagine what it would be like if all them just died, and I can honestly say I would be better off.

Yep. My family has done everything for me. They love me with their whole being and I feel extremely guilty for questioning whether I love them or not. I am just losing that feeling I used to get. I am becoming numb and dull due to my depression so that could be a part of it. I am not numb to everything, but this I think I am becoming. I know how to love, I am not this way with everyone. But, I cannot control how I feel. I feel this way, and it's not something that I chose.

I don't love my family and I don't really like them either. I don't understand why they like me so much or always want to be around me when I'm home and miss me so much when I'm gone. I've also never missed them (or anyone for that matter) and rarely think of anyone when I'm not physically with them... I don't feel strongly connected to other people unless they have a similar personality or interests/values. I get along with my family for the most part, but I only spend time with them because I know it means so much to them. If I knew it wouldn't hurt them I would never come home. I'm currently trying to become completely self-sufficient (I'm in college) so that the obligation to them and connection to them is weakened.

(Like everyone mentioned, I still am extremely grateful for their support and care).

I feel this way too. Glad I'm not the only one.

I’m so glad someone can relate to me about this.. when it comes to my family I say “I love you” or spend time with them out of habit, not because I feel like there is a relationship. I have the same issue with relationships too. I was with this guy for about 6 months and I liked him like a crush, and not in a relationship way. I always feel like an outcast, because my friends are getting into relationships with other people and I just always feel like I’m doing something wrong when it comes to intimacy because I can’t feel the romantic side of it.

i feel the same exact way. like i could go months sto years never talking to them and wouldnt miss them. i say i love them but i dont feel anything in truth. its not anything against them im just like this. i have to place on my mask or character to act like this caring person but im not. not on a deep inidividual initimate level. in general i care if anyone dies and recognize it as sad. but im not moved by it. not really.i cry about anyone giong to hell but thats it. if i hear someone died as a fam member did i recognizd intillectually that its supposed to be sad so i acknowledge that but i wasnst moved by it.

Yes I agree. Its not that I dislike my family. I don't have any trend to plus or minus with them. It is the same way I feel about all people. In fact to be honest my true feelings are that most of us do not belong here. I feel very connected to Mother earth, plants and animals and the way nature works. It is more important to me than humans. I don't mean to say anything negative here it is simply how I feel and view life. I am for positive interaction and that is nature it is not the Human way of life. Nature has an equilibrium of plus and minus whereas human life has mostly minus.

woo more people that are relatively like me phew i thought i was alone in this
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I think it would be strange if somebody did love their family. Some people would say it's a different kind of love but I think that with family it is just obligation, whereas with a lover, a friend or even a pet it could be love

I feel the same way, but especially towards family members I don't even know. I never liked kissing family members either, I think of kissing as only for romantic love. Lol. But hugs are acceptable, and it's only if I want to.

I'm the same way, I'm trying to avoid becoming a full adult for as long as possible so I stay with them. But once it's time to become one and move on I will most likely not see any of them again or at least not much. I can assure you that I have liked, loved, hated etc. many people and built some strong bonds, but my family barely exists to me.

Wanna trade?

Hmm im kind of the same except i feel this way with everyone.

I think that the love for your family is a different kind of love that you have for another person that isn't a relative.