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[quote=Anonymous]You need to create your own village. It's not that dissimilar if you are estranged from family or live far away from family. Ultimately, you made a decision to have children and while it is disappointing that some of the people closest to you do not want to partake in happy times with your child or help you with childcare it's good that they are saying no upfront instead of saying yes and making you miserable.

You don't need to spend all of your time building community, you just need to do what you can to meet other people. I say this all from experience, I am not close to my family and my husband's family lives far away. We have three children under five and sometimes I look wistfully at people whose parents babysit while they have date night or go on vacations (my BIL and SIL have three sets of parents within 20 minutes for example and all of the parents help them with there two children), but it's not our reality. You can feel sorry for yourself and you can feel jealous (because who wouldn't?), but you would probably benefit from accepting that you can't change your in-laws and moving on.[/quote]

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