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"I&amp;#x27;m going to vent here. But only because I can&amp;#x27;t vent in real life!The number one thing, of course, is that we can never truly vent about your family to you. If I ever start a fortune cookie company, the first cookie I print will have this inside of it: you can complain about your sister, but if your boyfriend complains about your sister, he&amp;#x27;s a total jerk. The truth is that I actually like Blossoms&amp;#x27; family. They&amp;#x27;re a gang of oddball characters, for sure. But that&amp;#x27;s just fine with me. Still, I have complaints. And I&amp;#x27;ll tell you guys because I sure as heck can&amp;#x27;t tell her! Here are the rest of my five: 2) Watching you argue with your mom I&amp;#x27;ve had girlfriends who turned into twelve year-old girls when they fought with their mothers. It&amp;#x27;s like they grow braces. A little scary. But while Blossoms is a pretty mature human and doesn&amp;#x27;t do that, she still has the exact same argument with her mother all the time. Can&amp;#x27;t we just agree that certain arguments should be retired? (Cheryl says her mom is like a sister to her...) 3) That they&amp;#x27;re a family I have to deal with like I&amp;#x27;m a member, but since I don&amp;#x27;t have actual membership, I&amp;#x27;m not allowed to get into the thick of the disputes. I bet Blossoms wouldn&amp;#x27;t get mad if I did. But it&amp;#x27;s just not my personality. It&amp;#x27;s like Washington DC: taxation without representation! 4) Listening to you complain about one sibling to another It&amp;#x27;s like gossip &amp;amp;#8212; which is never that attractive &amp;amp;#8212; only weirder. 5) That your family shares a past with you we&amp;#x27;re not a part of I get a little jealous, I have to admit. I sometimes feel like they have an intimacy, a very specific kind, that I&amp;#x27;ll never share with Blossoms. That&amp;#x27;s as it should be. But it points out the sad truth (not to get all HEAVY ON YOU on a Wednesday morning) that no matter how close you are to someone, there is always a distance. And sometimes the smaller the distance the more painful, for its never being able to be bridged. Do any of these ring true for you? And what is it about a guy&amp;#x27;s relationship to his family that drives you nuts? His mother complex? His total mental lapse when it comes to understanding the emotional dynamics? More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Smitten on Twitter"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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