Family Today let’s talk about “Family” At first I’m gonna tell you something about my growing up background. Because of the implement of the one-child policy for the past 30 years in China, people of my generation here almost don’t have blood brothers or sisters. So I’m the only child of my family, so does my girlfriend, by the way. When I was 8, 20 years ago, my parents got divorced. I lived with my mom. About one year later, they were both married and built their own family again. I have a stepbrother who’s 7 years older than me from the new family. He treated me well, we played and studied together all the time like blood brothers. We lived like that for about 3-4 years, then my stepbrother studied abroad to Japan, and my stepfather moved to another city for business. So it’s only my mom and me we two at home. We became a single parent family again. When I was in high school, I left home and lived in school. From that time till now, I never lived with my mom-side family. Actually I lived in high school and universities for almost 11 years, except last year I went back to Shenyang and lived with my dad for one year. So I have few memories about my family, I mean my real parents family. And the relationship between my parents and me is not very good. We don’t meet a lot. We have phone calls, but not much. I’m not quite good at getting along with other people, especially in a long term relationship or an intimate relationship. I’m a little concern with this. Now I’m living with my girlfriend who comes from a happiness family, and she’s a very extroverted girl. We live together for a month already, I think everything’s good for now. I want to rebuild the relationship with my parents in the future. We can meet more. Maybe I will build my own family, I am looking forward for that day.