Oh FFS. Are you kidding me??? You, who have presented yourself as something of a loner, up in a cabin somewhere in the mountains/woods.... away from "people".... are now positing that you're a "family" kinda guy? I'm confused. 
@XenaLee *SIGH*
I am on the record many times... My cabin is a mile out of town... Where I landed after my divorce. I was bunged up enough, and still am from time to time, that going back to the woods was not possible.
I am also on the record as being about a mile from my mother who lives in the big house for our clan, which is now right on the edge of town... and just a touch further to get to my sister's house. My younger son used to live two houses down from me to the east, and my elder son used to live a mile and a half north.
No, I am most certainly family oriented, even though I live alone, and that will not change as I get myself back out to the sticks...
In fact, there is much talk between my mother, my sister, my younger son and myself about all of us selling out and reinvesting together in a couple hundred acres further up in a holler. The idea being that we could all have a cabin and an acre or so on the corners (plenty far apart), with a central house for gatherings... Kinda a big barn with guest housing where the loft would be (maybe 8 bedrooms) and a central hall with an industrial kitchen, and all the bells and whistles toward family entertainment.
And in the mean time, pastures and woodlands perfect for young lads with dogs, central barn, garden and shops. shared investment in tractor and implements... Central water wheel for power, central well... We work pretty well together, and are accustomed to being close.
That is certainly the foremost option if we can pull it off.
So yeah - Most definitely a family man.
Anyway.... you need to grip the reality that all families are not alike and are not, therefore, close. Many times for very good reasons (@holes). That stuff you see on teevee... those dysfunctional family scenarios.... most were scripted and taken from "real life"....lol. And I've seen/witnessed/experienced a few of those scenarious in my life.... first hand, but
mostly from my closest friends' tails of their ""scenarios"" involving family and holidays.
If you have a great, close family you are blessed. Count those blessings and be grateful! 
Yeah maybe so... But I really don't see that here, thinking of the ranches and farms going on three or four generations, and hillfolk living very close to kin - Again, generations.... Sure, every family as it's problems. including ours. But family is the whole point.
