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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let go of the holiday hope. Drive to see them. Make the effort, push if you have to, to see them some other time. My guess though ~ this is not all that you would hope it would be. Probably having nothing to do with your special circumstance ... if the relationship isn't there, organically, it's just isn't there. And plenty of people have that extended family situation WITH parents living.[/quote]

This. My DH and I both have living parents and they don’t invite us fir holidays or come to see us. And we have kids. They just aren’t interested. It is sad.[/quote]

NP - same.  DH and I have to do all the work if we want our parents to attend for the holidays, with the exception of mom.  But she’s often preoccupied by caring for my niece, because my sister is very dysfunctional.  The extended cousins I grew up with and who are still local ditched us for the holidays due to my sister’s drinking, so that’s out.  My MIL has no interest in our kids now that they’re no longer toddlers fawning over her.  Sucks, but it is what it is.[/quote]

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