Do you take your family forgranted?

Don't even ask....the whole thing with my family is worse than yours.None see each other and those they do is better don't. The only person I fell close from my family is my brother.I really love him very much and try spend time with him as much I can.I don't want forget an aunt,even if she lives far when I needed her she travel all the night for being next to me at morning.That's all.The rest of the family or I never meet all those I do i prefer didn't From the other way my husband family is so close to each other.They visit each other very often,they speak at phone,they celebrate all together etc.I'm glad they include me as a member of them family.

I think what happens is that there comes a time that we are forced to make the time to visit, such as now that your dad has come from so far away. My Brother lives in the same town as I and there have been years that the only time we have visited was over the holidays. Its purely disgraceful. The fact is that his life and that of his family is so busy, and my life and that of my family is so busy, that it will be months when I realize I have not even picked up the phone to call him. Its true of him also. I do not place blame, because thats just how life gets, its sad, but its true. We get so caught up in the day to day dealings of our children, husbands, wifes, grand children we lose all sense of time for other things. We have to be the one to fix it. Just something small even an email or a telephone call.

I don't see my family much now that I'm 1100 miles away, but when I was closer I saw most of them fairly frequently. After I moved out, I still went home at least once a week to see my parents, and my little sister still lives at home. I saw one of my older sisters at least once a week until I moved up here, too. My brother was hit and miss. Sometimes I would see him several times in one week, other times it would be three or four weeks before I saw him once. My halfsisters I only saw every 2-3 months for the most part. Now that I live 1100 miles away I still talk to my little sister on the phone almost every day (at least 5 days a week). I talk to my mom two or three times a week, and my older sister about once every week or two. I haven't talked to either of my half sisters since I was home in January, besides an email here and there, and the same thing with my brother. I have only talked to my brother on the phone ONCE in the two years I've been here. It is kind of sad, but life happens. I'm always busy with my son and husband, and my brother is always busy with work (it's not uncommon for him to work from around 4 am to 10 pm 6 days a week. And he's a pastor on his day off from logging!) I'm going home in two weeks for about three weeks for my sister's wedding. I will see the whole family for that, and then again the following week I will see most of my extended family on my mom's side for the 4th. Other than Christmas cards, and two cards for my son's birthday, I haven't heard from any of them except while I'm home visiting, though.

i have some relatives who live close by our residence whom we hardly get to meet. they are not keen on seeing me. when i notice that a relative does not welcome my presence in her house, nor glad about meeting me in any place at all, you can be sure that i will also stay away. the problem is, it will become a habit to stay away. by the time that anyone of them will call on me because, they need me around for whatever reason, i will already find it so difficult to go over. i believe it is becuase the love for the relative has already been gone.

Hey there, No way, Ive never taken my family for granted, family in my mind are to be cherished, loved and cared for, I have a close knit family and I will do my best to make sure our family stays tight...