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Standing between two trees
Which side of the family do you feel more connected to — your father's family, or your mother's family?
What is the most obvious difference between the two sides of your extended family? What are the best strengths of each? In what way do you (and your brothers and sisters) embody the combination of these two family lineages?
I feel about equally connected to both sides of my family. My mother's family has a lot of eccentric people (some who were probably autistic) and a lot of introverts. Some, like my mother's mother, were extroverts, though. Some were interested in the occult (more my mother's father's side) and some were very religious Lutherans (more my mother's mother's side). My mother's coat of arms has a unicorn on a pale blue background with the hand of God reaching out of a cloud. I identify more with this coat of arms.
My father's side is filled with charming extroverts, drunks, drug addicts, some bad cops, and some actors. A lot of them are bipolar or otherwise mentally ill and I relate to them in that way. My father's coat of arms is red and yellow with a lion and I think a sword. It matches the family well, but less me. Though I guess I can be lion-like when I get prideful or vicious.
I look like a cross between both sides of my family, but I'm the shortest/smallest of them all for several generations at least.
Standing between two trees
Which side of the family do you feel more connected to — your father's family, or your mother's family?
What is the most obvious difference between the two sides of your extended family? What are the best strengths of each? In what way do you (and your brothers and sisters) embody the combination of these two family lineages?
I feel about equally connected to both sides of my family. My mother's family has a lot of eccentric people (some who were probably autistic) and a lot of introverts. Some, like my mother's mother, were extroverts, though. Some were interested in the occult (more my mother's father's side) and some were very religious Lutherans (more my mother's mother's side). My mother's coat of arms has a unicorn on a pale blue background with the hand of God reaching out of a cloud. I identify more with this coat of arms.
My father's side is filled with charming extroverts, drunks, drug addicts, some bad cops, and some actors. A lot of them are bipolar or otherwise mentally ill and I relate to them in that way. My father's coat of arms is red and yellow with a lion and I think a sword. It matches the family well, but less me. Though I guess I can be lion-like when I get prideful or vicious.
I look like a cross between both sides of my family, but I'm the shortest/smallest of them all for several generations at least.
