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[quote=Anonymous]OP I feel sad about this too.  I'm an only child, with no family in the area, and my parents live 4000 miles away.  I only see them once a year.  DH has two siblings, one who is estranged and one who he doesn't get along with.  Neither of his siblings have kids.  His parents are divorced, live 2000 miles away, and we don't see them often (he has a very dysfunctional family).

We spend every holiday alone, just the two of us, and it's very, very lonely.  This year for Thanksgiving we just made a nice, regular dinner for the two of us and watched a movie at home.  I do have extended family, but they live all over the place, mainly on the West Coast, and the closest kin I have is in the midwest.  Unfortunately my extended family isn't interested in a relationship with me.  DH isn't really close with any of his extended family either, and they all live thousands of miles away.  We'll never have a week at the beach with family, or spend holidays with family, and it makes me really sad.  We are expecting our first baby, and it makes me sad that baby will not have any cousins, or a close relationship with any aunts/uncles, and will only see his grandparents once a year.  I am hoping we can make friends who are like family here, but we are not from this area and it has been really hard making friends so far as a married couple without kids.  When we do have our baby we won't have any visitors, and we will have no help the first few weeks from close friends or family.  It's very isolating.[/quote]

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