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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adult here, my mom nor my husbands parent's never call us. We feel alone. [b]We don't have children ourselves.[/b] We do both come from sick alcoholic families is this it? We are good "kids" are always there to HELP. They only call when they need something and never just to say HI or ask how we are doing. WHY? Parents who don't call why?[/quote]

You don't have kids. Your parents are older. It's great that you are good kids, helping them even though they have alcoholism. That may be a cause - don't want to call because they want to hide drinking, feel ashamed or less than, never developed healthy conversational skills.

But, in any case, a major task of adulthood is to develop your own "family" - not necessarily by having children but by cultivating a broad circle of friendships of differing closeness.  Are you doing this? Who is in your world who you can invite for holidays? can call in emergency? can talk to about problems?

Many single people or people without kids have to think more broadly about creating a family rather than birthing or being born into a family.

Your birth parents (usually) will die and leave you a long life after.  You need to develop your own "family".

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