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[quote=Anonymous]I have a wonderful loving immediate family and I do not feel the need to keep the peace with every single person in the family. My super sweet sentimental (and younger, not sure if that is relevant, but perhaps it is) brother is "heartbroken" that I do not speak with my aunt, and thinks that I should be the bigger person and bury the hatchet.  I personally feel like some relationships are not worth pursuing, and being around said aunt causes me stress and makes me miserable, so why bother?

My aunt is not alone, so I am not turning my back on someone in need.

My kids have great and loving grandparents, cousins, and aunts and uncles, so they are not missing out.

Why can't some relationships just be forgotten?  My brother thinks it is one of the few links we have to our father's side of the family (our father is no longer living), but I don't feel it is necessary to maintain a relationship with them. Further, they aren't making any effort.  My aunt is a truly selfish woman. Even as a kid I didn't like her, and the final straw was when she said truly mean things about my dying father.  She also did not attend his funeral, which was fine with me, but the reason she told me -- the day after he died -- that she was not going to attend was simply cruel.

I am happy that this woman is out of my life.  My brother is single, and perhaps that is why we look at things differently, but I just don't want this person in my life and I feel no obligation to do so.  Am I wrong?[/quote]

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