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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I get it. I grew up with some local cousins, too, and have very fond memories of our boisterous Thanksgivings and how great my aunt and uncle were. But PPs are right in that if you want these things for your kids, you’ll need to organize them. The fact that your mother isn’t the matriarch her mother was suggests that either that’s not who she is or that she didn’t like their mother bringing everyone together as strongly as she did. She’s chosen a different way. Local family isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be, at least not for the adults. What’s keeping you from scheduling a vacation with your siblings? Or establishing new family traditions with them? People often really romanticize “having local family” without appreciating the challenges that can go into that. IME, setting and maintaining boundaries with my local family is yet another full-time job, on top of the one I do for pay and the other of raising my kids.[/quote]
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