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[quote=Anonymous]I can see this happening w one of my brothers too and it’s sad. We used to be close and we both have kids of similar ages. I’d love to have a relationship w my brother, his wife (my only SIL), and their kids. I’d love for the cousins to grow up close and for my kids to have their aunt and uncle in their lives.

But they don’t seem to feel the same way. I think part of it is just that they’re really busy—they both work and have 2 young kids whereas I’m a SAHM and my kids are slightly older and in school so I have more time to think about other things like family relationships. I also think they focus more on SIL’s family than on mine. Her parents are divorced and both remarried so she has 2 sets of parents and she also has more siblings than in my family. I guess it also seems in a lot of families (and is true in my brother and SIL’s case) w heterosexual couples, that people tend to be closer w the woman’s family than the man’s family. Maybe because women tend to be better than men at maintaining family relationships/emotional ties to people in general.[/quote]

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