If you can't trust family members what makes you think you can call a stranger your friend?🤦‍♂️

Well if you come to know a stranger then they are not a stranger anymore..

And anyway if a stranger betrays you then the loss is tempoary.. If you confide in a family member and they betray you the damage can be suffered for years and years..

You don’t choose your family members. That’s happenstance. But by the time you’ve called someone a friend, presumably you’ve gotten to know them and they’ve [b]proven[/b] to you they can be trusted. They’re no longer a “stranger”. I have a family member who has [b]stolen[/b] from me. But I have friends going back 35 and 45 years whom I’ve been able to trust with my [b]life[/b].

Family will abuse you due to close proximity and convenience. Strangers are less likely to have that kind of access to you.

In my case, my closest friends [i]are[/i] the family I wish I had, had.

Not all of us are blessed to be in a family where "blood is thicker than water".

because you can choose who to trust and who not to. trust is not limited to where blood begins

Sometimes friends are better than family...

I never said I thought so. In fact people with troubled family relations will have difficulty with friendships all their lives

I trust everyone equally

I trust very few people. Including most of my family members.