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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I get it. Times have changed. We are a very mobile culture, and one that is obsessed with personal happiness. You are within your rights to grieve the family that you will not have.

I think it's good you can name it. Chances are you will never get that "dream" of being surrounded by family and grandchildren. It's much rarer these days. This is a loss and you should grieve it as such, maybe a see a therapist. Because then you will have to let go and move on, and that can be very hard to do on your own, without some reframing techniques.

I have no parents left (one dead, one with dementia) and my brother is incommunicado somewhere on the west coast. Cousins -- scattered across the globe. My kids are still young but they may very well move away for work or love, and may or may not have kids themselves.

I am preparing myself that it may be just buy husband and me, and if he dies, just me. Unlike you I never had that wonderful large family surrounding me, so I am jealous that you ever had it! But OP, it was a stage of your life and now it's over.

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