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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure. My SIL dropped the rope and now my kids never get presents or cards for birthdays and Christmas from my brother and his family. You too can drop the rope, just so long as you're fine not having relationships with your nieces and nephews. [/quote]

Your brother is pretty awful. Nature, nurture or both? Good for his wife for not trying to “fix” his relationships with his family: that’s his choice. [/quote]

FWIW, it means she is also choosing not to have a good relationship with the kids who call her "aunt." They're not as hung up on the fact that she is their aunt "by marriage." In their minds, she's just their aunt, and in that family, neither the uncle nor the aunt seem to care to get to know the kids.[/quote]

Not everyone is as invested as you are in having strong relationships with anyone other outside their nuclear families.  There's nothing wrong with that and if you don't make a big deal of it neither will your kids.

FWIW - in my family, we're not big on sending presents or cards.  Yet, my kids (older teens) love my brother and sister who live in 2 different states.  They text frequently and that's fine. They've probably seen them in person about a handful of times in their entire lives.  That's just the way it is and no one is lamenting it. [/quote]

Same here. [/quote]

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