Been speaking with someone about this and decided I'd make a topic on it, as I'm interested to hear from others. When eating, do you tend to sit together with your family, or do you and your family members eat on their own time by themselves? If you currently live away from family, think on how things used to be for you. I tend to eat on my own time, as do the rest of us, so we don't really have many opportunities to sit down together and talk about our lives. Definitely a more disconnected and introverted family than some haha, but by no means does that mean we don't care or ask about how we're all doing when we can.
My family can talk amongst themselves as much as they want, but I don't like to converse with others, even my own family. I sit alone when I can, though I will sit with family if it's in a required time (Thanksgiving or other holiday meals). I'm not at all social like they are, so that's one of the big separations between us.
I mean, I eat with mi familia. But either my parents are talking en espanol or we just talk about our days.
We still gather around the table and eat there. It's a family tradition. I honestly can't remember a single time we haven't eaten dinner all together when we could. It's also why our meal schedule isn't very regular.
We usually eat together, but sometimes my mom eats earlier because she has to go somewhere for the remainder of the day. If one of us is hungry/less hungry, we’re allowed it eat earlier/later.
We're typically on our own for breakfast and lunch, but we almost always eat dinner together as a family. These are typically the times where we have our family discussions. It's still super casual though. We don't have to wait for everybody to finish eating, and we don't have to get permission, before we leave the table. I can't really imagine all of us just fending for ourselves for all meals.
My mom doesn’t like when we don’t eat together for dinner, so I guess I’ve grown to be used to this. We’re usually pretty quiet anyway, since my dad turns on the TV. As for other meals, it doesn’t matter if we eat together or not.
I have too much anxiety to eat with my family, and we tend to eat at different times anyway, so I eat two of three meals in my room. We haven't eaten together as a family since I was eight or so.
I always eat dinner with my family. It matters a lot to my parents to spend time with their children, even though they end up talking about work the whole time anyway. >.> Lunch and breakfast we're generally on our own; when we all have a day off we might eat breakfast together, assuming we're all awake, but that's about it.
I did as a child, but as I got older they relaxed that rule so I just eat on my own. Of course, there are exceptions, like when we visit my aunt and uncle or they visit here, or if I visit my dad.
We only really eat together during holidays and when we go out to eat. At home, I like to eat in my room and my parents eat in the living room.
Eating with family is nice, but I do it less now. My siblings have moved, leaving just me and my parents, and I have a restricted diet and an earlier schedule. I want to go to bed at 8, and if they want to eat at 7, then that would not give me enough time to eat, work out, shower, and get to bed on time. So I would often make something quick and easy for myself to have dinner at 5 and finish all my to-do in time. I've actually gotten quite into a habit of eating dinner with you, my other family! I just take a plate of my own dinner to my room and hang out in the Discord while eating at the desk. Perhaps it's not ideal, but still nice.
I can’t think of a single time my parents and I ever ate as a family consistently (outside of restaurants). There have been a few times we all ate at the same time, but they are few and far between. That doesn’t really bother me since I always found family dinners rather awkward.
I used to eat dinner with my family all the time. We never ate together when it came to breakfast or lunch unless it was a special occasion. Our family stopped eating dinner together consistently when my older siblings started moving out. Now a days when I visit my family, we just eat whenever.
Whenever I visit my mother we eat at the dinner table as we did when I was a kid. There is something to the ritual of laying the table and having all the sides in the center to pass to each other that I am fond of.
I do on the days I do not work. While I live at home for a few months of the year, I try to spend as much time with my family as possible, and family dinner is the time we get together. It's a good experience that I am happy to experience when the opportunity arises.
Not really often. Often I don't have the time or really the interest to do so. I prefer to enjoy my meal alone. Also, I eat when my family is most likely already asleep, so that doesn't help either.
