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[quote=Anonymous]You just have to accept them for who they are OP and drop your expectations of who they should be. It’s sad, I get it. My family is like this. But again, you will get nothing good from comparing them to an idealized version of a parent/grandparent in your mind. Let it go. Run a little excitement and stop calling and visiting and see how long it takes them to proactively reach out or ask you about it. You’ll know then whether they appreciate or care about your efforts to maintain a connection and can calibrate your level of effort accordingly. There’s nothing wrong with prioritizing building a friend network to replace family, and dialing back your family visits to every other year. Just don’t make it a big thing or get on a soapbox about it— they’ll do them and you do you. [/quote]
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