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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
I have to vent a bit....
Our families live in Oklahoma, nearly 700 miles away. They complain that we don't go home enough and that they want to see us more often. Meanwhile, they will drive within a hundred miles of our house to go to the beach for a week without so much as a stop or hello. They also plan vacations to other far away places (can't begrudge them that, really, if they've never been there), but they expect us to do all the travelling to see them. My sister couldn't even save us a 12 hour drive by meeting us halfway to get our son this week, so we drove all the way to OK to get him to come back home the next day. We were worn out.
We love our families, and we don't mind being physically apart. That said, it's on them if they want to see us again soon. My mom's health isn't great, and as much as I don't want to have to go back again soon, that would be the only reason I would.
Interesting, you're not alone, Lucille. We had the same experience in Colorado. When we lived near Denver, we could make it to Colorado Springs [where my brother lived] in about an hour. We would go see him all the time, but he would never come and see us. He didn't have any trouble asking for money, though. When we turned off that tap and moved to Tennessee, that was the last contact we had. It took a while to realize that when you do all the work and get nothing in return, you get played. We got played. Sometimes families are just like that.
Just this last week was being guilted about why we don't visit more. I mentioned that planes went both ways.. stopped the nag for now.
I'm sorry to hear that. It doesn't seem fair, eh? My parents, along with my MIL are the only ones who have come to visit us in 13 years, save when I was hospitalized from a wreck and my sisters came and last year when a cousin had truck trouble and had to have some place to work on the truck before going to the beach. They'd not have stopped otherwise! Heck, my brother must have known I was visiting last weekend and didn't even bother to call or visit. It's their loss.
My sisters seem to stay busy for the sake of staying busy with their jobs and college. I, on the other hand, enjoy life, with less money than they, but seemingly with more quality. I prefer this!