Venting post, reader beware
It's not fair that everyone else gets to see their families and not me. All of my friends have their cousins over for birthdays, but I'm lucky if I get a single text message. My mom hates my dad's family, so I never get to see them (and they live very far away). Plus, they all forget I exist. They don't even feel like relatives anymore, just names in my life I know. And my grandmother won't let my other cousins come down to see us anymore, either. We aren't even going out to see them! I know I'm supposed to love my family, but how can I do that when they're total strangers to me? And then my mom complains that I don't have a good relationship with my grand parents when she's literally the whole reason why I don't have any relationship with them!
But when our family does meet up, all anyone ever wants to do is fight. I wish we could just have a family that can stand to be with each other for a day. All I want is the relationship I'm supposed to have with them.