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[quote=Anonymous]I am not estranged but hardly have a relationship with her. We visit each other occasionally out of obligation and when we see each other, we are warm enough and she gets on well with my daughter, but we can go many months without speaking and have gone years between visits. I come from a large family and she is just more concerned with some of my siblings and their children. Until about 10 years ago I would travel to her multiple times a year and put a lot of effort in, but then I realized how draining this was for me when she simply seemed disinterested in my life. So I stopped and now we are very distant. I do wish I had a meaningful maternal figure in my life. My mom feels kind of like an aunt I'm friendly with. We don't fight, but we don't connect either. It just doesn't feel like she cares at all. The older I get the more I realize that it's never going to change and the more I wish it would. Life is so lonely without those kinds of connections.[/quote]
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