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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm feeling salty, but I have a couple of these "I will live only for me and my darling dumpling spouse" in my extended family, and inevitably they end up just like OP, wanting to be johnny come lately for family! and connection! and shared history! when it suits them, but were blissfully cocooning with their spouse for the prior three decades.  No thanks.  [/quote]

This is OP.
You sound angry and bitter towards your extended family members. Please explain.

My husband and I weren't 'blissfully cocooning'. We live 6 to 7 hours away. We had - and still have - busy, demanding jobs.

We go back to my hometown every 3 to 4 months (less frequently during the pandemic) - either me on my own, or DH & me together - and we try and get together with my aunts and uncles. 
Sometimes they are available for us, other times they are not.

I just feel the relationship is one-sided, that's all. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, NO ONE in my whole family (on mom's and dad's side) - except my parents - came to our wedding. Yes, it would have meant they had to travel, but for practical reasons we decided to get married in the city where we lived and worked.

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