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[quote=Anonymous]About 10 years ago, a sibling got mad at me for something quite trivial and stopped talking with me even though I called them several times to apologize.  We live thousands of miles a part so it was no big deal that they cut me out.  We'd return "home" and have to be in the same house with each other once a year, occasionally twice a year.  It is awkward as they don't say a single word over an entire weekend to me and avoids being in the same room as me.
 
We both have kids.  Since they got mad at me, they stopped sending birthday cards and Christmas presents to my kids.  Hurtful to me and my kids, but it is what it is.  Up until about three years ago, I mailed birthday cards and small gifts and Christmas presents.  I never knew if they got them - no acknowledgement - so I finally said f#-it and stopped.

My sibling's kids are elementary school.  Mine are a bit older.  My kids know about their uncle, aunt and nieces/nephews as I mention them a few times before the visits.  At one visit, I asked my nieces/nephews if they knew who I was, and they shook their heads and said "no."  (((((sigh)))))

This will be the first Christmas in a number of years we are home at the same time.  DO I spend money to buy my estranged sibling's kids a gift?  [/quote]

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