[pokey27]

Ya can choose ya friends but not you're family as the saying goes..or something like that!!
I think like Niko that nothings more important than family so hope you work it out
Have a great day with your daughter Rob
Happy birthday to the little cutey

[Big Vern]

Family are people that you are simply stuck with and I think quite often there comes a point when their shortcomings often outweigh the fact that they are family. Family is only important if you have a good relationship with them, if you don't then they are not important, especially when you have friends who would do more for you than your family would.

Rob, you do what is right for you mate, life is too short to let others bring you down.

[pukkabruv]

^ too true,
im lucky that my close family are all cool, but i also have mates that i consider family. so if the ones you were born with aint working out so well you can always adopt new family.

[Squeaky]

I can understand why people say family is important but like Big Vern says that's only the case when you have a good relation. My mother is a cow and she only thinks how much grief she has after a fight. She never thinks about the grief me and the rest of my family have, even when she is the cause of the misery. She is so selfish. My brother is the same I guess. He was a complete bastard and treated my parents like shit. He now blames me for being respectless towards them. He totally forgets what he has done in the past and that my mother is to blame.

Fuck it, all these fights have ruled my life. Talking to therapist has made me realize it's time to choose for myself and my own family. If that means I'm loosing my brothers but it gives me the peace I so badly need well then that is what it takes.

I got other things to worry about. I'm expecting a baby boy in four weeks, I will loose my jOb and get a new one in Amsterdam. My girlfriend has no job. My house is for sale and I still have to get married some day.

Thanks for all the support guys!

[vox]

Good for you Rob!

[nikosg]

Goodluck with everything man.
Can totally understand what youre saying. I guess it depends on the environment you grew up in. But yeh, I too consider some of my friends just as much family as my mother and father, and they will be called 'uncle' by my kids

[Marco82]

One of my MVV Maastricht mates has stabbed his ex girlfriend early this morning, she's at the hospital with severe woundings. He commited suicide after that by cutting through his throat...

Really can't believe what's going on, last friday we had a great night at the footballmatch, some good laughs and everything seemed ok. I didn't knew that there were difficulties between him and his ex. He never told about it. From what I read on the local news sites he and the father of his ex were at the police office yesterday to talk about the fact that he was stalking her since the end of the relationship.

Today feels so unreal, just can't believe it and still hope it's just a bad dream. I'm sorry to bother you all with this...

[lorre]

Marco that all sounds surreal don't really know what to say.

[streak]

Yeah.. What Errol said.

Lost for words really..

[Vortec]

Marco, saw it on the news.
Must be very double for you men.
My condolences for your loss and i wish you strength!

[Tifoso]

Wow. Sorry, Marco. Speechless.

Rob, I know how you feel. Your own family comes first. For that reason, I haven't seen my own father in almost 12 years. You have to protect your own. Hang in there, bro.

[mr.pure]

Dark days.
Hope things brighten up for all concerned.

[Squeaky]

Damn Marco, that's some serious stuff. Sorry for your loss man.

[Poor Sod]

That's some tough shit for you to deal with both Marco and Rob. Hopefully it will feel better given some time...

Well to lighten things up here a bit I just silently passed the magic 1000 posts barrier!

[Sweet_Kicks]

You've kinda just contradicted the 'silently' by telling us