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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post has no purpose except I wanted to write it down somewhere.

I'm in my mid 30s, married, have 2 kids, have a good job, finances are good, own a house, am healthy.

But especially around the holidays, I start feeling kind of lonely, I guess. I'm an only child and my spouse has one sibling who is single. Almost all of our extended family is abroad (we are kids of immigrants). So holidays are small for us. My kids don't mind it now, but I've started to worry that as they get older they'll start to notice and feel the absence of cousins, aunts and uncles. Our friends always mention spending time with this sibling or that sibling-in-law, and traveling to this person's house or that person's house, and I start to idealize in my mind how great it must be to have a big family. Or at least some siblings...

The other wrinkle is that many of our closest friends aren't close by, either. They're concentrated in other parts of the country where we used to live but moved away from a few years ago. So while we've made some new friends, it's not really the same feeling as getting to spend time with people you went to school with or got to know from years and years of being close by to them.

It's kind of an odd feeling - I'm one of those people who studied really hard in school growing up, went to schools and always wanted to be "successful". I did that. But now I'm realizing, at the end of day, it is nice to earn a good salary but I'm not fulfilled by that. I wish I had more people in my life who I'm close to and am able to see regularly.

That's all. Happy holidays!

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