People who use the word family as an adjective

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Family weekend
Family time
Family day

I have a family but I don't feel the need to refer to family supermarket trip, family visit to great aunt Elsie, family evening. Especially when you see your family every day, it's not like you have to make weekends special because you're away a month at a time.

It irks me.

And I'm also in a bad mood so needed an outlet 😡

In RL when people ask "how's hubby?" I hate "hubby" but the absence of "your" takes it into a new realm

I don't like "start a family", not sure why!

The example you give OP is a noun by my reckoning. Not an adjective.

"We're going to be having a Family Dinner"

That sentence is just giving 'dinner for the family' a new name - 'Family Dinner'.

Not a dinner which has be described as being 'family'. What would that adjective be? A smell? A look?

somewhat misses the point

I think it's completely ok to call special family occasions just that. It irks me when, as PP have said, the word family is added to everything they do. My boss is guilty of this, so much so that I had to stop following her insta. Everything was hashtagged with #familytime #familydinner #familywalk #familynight #preciousmemories #ihavethebesthubby #blessed

It makes me vom. I'm lucky that I get to spend plenty of time with DP and DCs, but I don't feel the need to take photos of everything we do and upload them to every social media platform available

Sounds less like a problem with 'family...' and more like a problem with Facebook to me.

It throws me. I end up saying "DH'sname?" as though I'm not sure which one they're talking about, and looking like an idiot.

I find all these things irritating when used on social media.

We once invited some friends over for Sunday lunch and got a lecture about "family time" and how important it was to them because they both worked (so do we). We didn't invite them again.

I wrongly assumed it just meant spending time together as a family, which could include visiting friends, rather than all doing different things, but obviously I was wrong.

That was to "how's hubby??" BTW...

Me time is always

I wish!

I don't particularly use it but I don't find it irritating. I assume people mean quality family time together, so having a nice day out, playing games etc rather than the usual run of the mill family time during the week when they're at work/school/clubs and only have a quick catch up at the end of the day.

Lots of people no longer have extended family close by so it will just be their hubby and kids, they are still family.

I think you're all a bit mardy. If you don't like it, don't say it or scroll past. My husband and I work different hours and so our "family time" can be a bit sparse and we make the most of the time we are altogether. I don't really give a shit if you don't like me putting #familytime on my instagram photos. I'm not smug, I just love spending time with my family.

Hmm I have been guilty of this but a whole family day is very rare as me and dh don't have a day off together. He recently booked a weekend day off and we absolutely packed it full and it was wonderful. My Facebook post might have started with something like "absolutely knackered after a busy but wonderful family day out..." sorry if I offended anyone!

Yes Mrs JM, it's a noun off topic

I'm an English teacher too.... I blame maternity leave and a lack of caring today 😂

Agree with you, OP. It smacks a bit of "thou doth protest too much."

If you spend good time with your family as a general rule, why would you feel the need to broadcast any particular event? I have to say that if I see "family time" highlighted, the cynic in me is thinking that there's something amiss that needs fixing.

I've never come across famalam tbh.

As for family time - I can see why they would say that, if you are working all week and the weekend is the only time you all get to be together then yes, that's family time.

Me time is always - hahahahahah! No.

I use the term family trip/day but you wouldn't know because I'm not on FB.

When you have teenagers then it becomes rarer to all go out together.

My DCs are grown up now but we still use the phrase 'family dinner' to mean a meal (normally on a weekend) where all four of us are present, we sit round a table, no phones are allowed and there are at least two courses. To make it even more annoying we often abbreviate to 'famdins'.

Making Memories drives me nuts.

Oh yes, I hate "quality family time" and also "bonding" urghh!

I sometimes talk about family time, as with DSS (22) and DS (17) not every weekend or holiday is for us all. So the weekends or breaks when we get everyone together is special family time.

I reckon it started as advertising spiel.

Buy your family car, go on a family holiday, do your weekly family shop, install a family bathroom, have a family day out and come home for a family dinner. All at a very reasonable price from XYZ stores.

My DS21 has moved out, but is still very keen on Family Sundays.
Turns out this means washing his boxers. I will still do it because I love him, but I won't be buying into the idea that it's the expression of my love.

haven't RTFT. We use it as a polite way of telling our neighbours to go home (and they do the same to us)- we live in a house converted into two flats. t he other family has young kids. When one or other or us says we are going to have "family time" we both know that is polite code for "fuck off and give us some privacy."