I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.