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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, there are lots of threads on here about this. Make the family you want with your friends. My siblings have stopped visiting (I live near the hometown) and nobody visits them either. We might get a grown niece or nephew passing through so it's not total estrangement - it's just a mutual... "not interested".... it's very freeing.[/quote]
OP here. It’s exactly this. If I’d rather spend a summer evening with close friends, and not to the dinner being hosted for Aunt Mildred who is coming in to town with her husband’s children and grandchildren, then I’m horrible. Why? I guess I don’t get it. [b]Why should I care about these people?[/b] [/quote]

To be blunt, it's part of [b]being a normal human being[/b]. It feels like you have a piece missing, from the way you talk

This is separate from people have distanced themselves from hurtful or dysfunctional families.

But it's a free countries and you can opt out. Others can judge and that's their right as well.[/quote]

Oh please! Your dysfunctional normal is not everyone else’s normal. Everyone has their own family dynamics and normal. OP should do what’s best for her family.[/quote]

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