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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly, my mother's family falls in this camp: my two aunts won't speak to each other, one of the aunts won't speak with her parents, and my uncle is estranged from everyone (didn't respond to my DD's birth announcement nor wedding invitation, for example). Not to mention[b] a lack of proper family blending [/b]when my grandmother married her now-husband - my mother's stepfather from age eight - that impacts the way the three children from that marriage relate to my mother (hint: not in a good way).

It's sad to watch but ultimately understandable. My grandmother and her husband are critical, negative people. As an adult, I keep my distance.[/quote]

What a strange way to put it.  I think it is the exception, not the rule, for stepfamilies to "blend properly."[/quote]

This was an extreme case. They tried to cut off my mother's biological dad and have her stepdad adopt her to avoid the "shame" of being a blended family. Sent my mom's younger half-siblings to private while mom went to public; helped younger siblings with college, but not mom; used her as a live-in babysitter/housecleaner. Not inviting and including my mom (and me and my brother) in family activities because she's not "their" child. Very dysfunctional.[/quote]

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