Poll: If applicable, how often do you eat together with your family?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Other Sep 19, 2025

I live alone, so most of the days I eat by myself, except when one of my daughters (she is also a freelancer although in quite a different area) comes to lunch with me during the week. Anyway, we use to eat together almost every weekend. Every six months, we all gather at the home of one of the family members who has a house large enough to accommodate us all (there are usually 20 to 30 of us). The last meal, was at one of my daughters two weeks ago and the following will be at Christmas. Once a... See more
I live alone, so most of the days I eat by myself, except when one of my daughters (she is also a freelancer although in quite a different area) comes to lunch with me during the week. Anyway, we use to eat together almost every weekend. Every six months, we all gather at the home of one of the family members who has a house large enough to accommodate us all (there are usually 20 to 30 of us). The last meal, was at one of my daughters two weeks ago and the following will be at Christmas. Once a year, on what would have been my mother's birthday (23 September), we get together for a dinner with just the immediate family (her children and grandchildren).Collapse


Oscar Núñez Alfaro
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neilmac
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Other Sep 19, 2025

May daughter lives in the UK and I'm in Spain so we only see each other in person a couple of times a year at best. This week she is swimming with whales in Tahiti... And today I'm having lunch with friends and neighbours.

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Jennifer Levey
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Often enough! Sep 19, 2025

The last time I sat down for a meal with any member of my family was almost exactly 12 years ago.
And I've no plans to repeat the exercise any time soon...


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texjax DDS PhD
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? and ? Sep 19, 2025

How is this relevant to our profession?
And why should anyone be expected to answer personal questions in a public professional forum?


Josephine Cassar
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Maria Laura Curzi
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Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
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Lieven Malaise
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Expectations Sep 19, 2025

texjax DDS PhD wrote:
How is this relevant to our profession?
And why should anyone be expected to answer personal questions in a public professional forum?


Nobody is expecting anything. How hard can it be to just skip questions like these if you don't like them?


Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Oscar Núñez Alfaro
Thomas Pfann
Serhan Elmacıoğlu
Maria Laura Curzi
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expressisverbis
 
Oscar Núñez Alfaro
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Everyday! Sep 19, 2025

I usually cook the meal for my family every day. We usually eat together or separate depending on our mood, but after having breakfast, we gather together to talk about everything, i.e. life, work, relationships, our community, politics and Sacred Scriptures, and so on. I just love it!!!

 
texjax DDS PhD
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. Sep 19, 2025

Lieven Malaise wrote:

Nobody is expecting anything. How hard can it be to just skip questions like these if you don't like them?


It's not that I dislike the question itself. That said, when it comes to discussing expectations (especially on a professional platform that I've been supporting for 20 years) I tend to value insights that are more directly connected to our field. We're at a pivotal moment in the profession, and just days away from the annual virtual conference, so conversations about who cooks dinner and whom they eat it with don't feel particularly productive or enriching in this context, at least in my view.

I'll leave it here, but I appreciate the exchange.


Michele Fauble
writeaway
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Anna A. K.
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