I know it must be an amazing thing. To not even have to wonder about whether or not they're on your side. With mine, sometimes they'll end up doing the right thing....... but only when it is convenient for them. And you never really know when that will be. When it's not convenient for them, they will just tear me down and set out to make me feel utterly worthless and discarded. And then if called on it later, they just deny it ever happened or tell me that I should just "take it or leave it". While I am fully aware now as I have grown older that my family is pretty ****** compared to others, I didn't know until I saw the love and empathy that other families had for them. It is incredible to see that there is good in the world, even though unfortunately my own "family" certainly is anything but good or even possessing basic decency or empathy to any degree.