I think big extended families like this can be challenging when there is that political divide. My mum was the person who made the effort to bring our extended family together, so when she passed away, I didn't see my extended family all that much. The ones I did see were primarily because I reached out and made the effort to visit them (one of them reached out to me when I mentioned road tripping the US to visit family, and she lived in a different area than I'd been planning to drive to, but because she reached out I wound up changing plans and driving her direction instead). Honestly, given that my dad's family comes from Wyoming, I'm surprised so many are on the same wavelength as me politically.
I think I would be closer to my siblings now if we lived closer to each other. We have a good time and connect when we see each other in person, but we live in different countries. Even when my brother and I both lived in the US, we lived in different states and I only saw him a couple of times when he came down to see me in California (though he did stay for a few months at the beginning of the pandemic). We (brother, sister, and myself) video chat only a few times a year, but otherwise don't really communicate much. How physically close are you to your siblings?
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Date: 2022-06-04 05:06 pm (UTC)I think I would be closer to my siblings now if we lived closer to each other. We have a good time and connect when we see each other in person, but we live in different countries. Even when my brother and I both lived in the US, we lived in different states and I only saw him a couple of times when he came down to see me in California (though he did stay for a few months at the beginning of the pandemic). We (brother, sister, and myself) video chat only a few times a year, but otherwise don't really communicate much. How physically close are you to your siblings?