Current Events > I don't give a crap about my extended family.

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Being related is not an excuse to know someone. Some members of my family I haven't seen in five years keep sending us emails about what their kids are doing. Some never shut up about what some great grandparent did.

I am not my ancestors and I am not my family. I just want to be left alone. I don't want to spend time with people I didn't ask to be related to.

Just go away.
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Awww, Uncle Kaja thinks it's going to be ok.
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You seem troubled, TC.
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Mine was at one point over 200 strong. There's a handful that I like and communicate with. But omfg the way they're always in each others business. The gossip and parties. And most of them aren't any closer in relation to one another than I am to them. Oh so and so is getting married and we're all invited. Great. Who is that? So and so died. Who?
I see these people at the occasional funeral I attend. If that. How they remember who I am when I've spoken a dozen words to them my whole life I have no idea. And then throw in the damn nicknames everyone over 50 seems to have because of the cliche mexican family we are and I really have no idea who anyone is when they get mentioned.
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I pretty much don't keep in contact with any of them and it doesn't bother me at all. Haven't seen most of them in like 11+ years.
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