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How is your relationship w/your family since you moved?
This is in line with the "Missing my family" thread.
My mom and I used to talk daily and of course we can't do that now, its more like once a week. What I find is we really have nothing to talk about. I tell her about DS and what he's doing and then we're pretty much done. I feel like my family could really care less about what we do over here and just think we just need to go home so they can see my DS.
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Re: How is your relationship w/your family since you moved?
That's too bad. Has your family visited you in the NL before? My phone calls with my parents are usually full of them updating me on things going on at home, me telling them about my life and now what DD is doing, etc. We email several times a week, as well, although my Dad likes to fill his emails with a lot of weather updates... It's well-meant since he's just trying to reach out and stay in contact with me but obviously can't think of anything else to write about. :-)
I think keeping the contact is the most important thing. What you talk about isn't so important.
Way better!
The presence of an entire ocean between us really helps keep the crazy contained in Canada!
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Oh, I'm sorry you feel that way!
I've kind of been on both sides of the equation-- I'm abroad now, but long before we left, my brother and his family were expats (Korea, GE, UK). To be completely honest, I absolutely love my brother and his family (SIL and 2 nieces). Love. Plain and simple. That said, I probably am closer with my sister's kids (nephew and niece). I don't know "why"... part of it might have been geo closeness (although, during the early years, I wasn't all that close-- DC and TX and I worked and was in school at night, so it's not like I was popping down more than 1/yr). But part of it might also be my relationship w/ my sister (we're very, very close).
Regardless, it always makes me feel a bit regretful that I don't have a closer relationship w/ my brother's kids. I love them and think/hope they love me (now us), but the distance has made it harder.
As for me-- I do miss seeing my family around the holidays. But I'm enjoying the experience of life somewhere else. I've been lucky enough to have boatloads of F&F visit (grand total is now 24 in 2.5yrs), so that helps too.
We get a lot of that "Come home, we miss you" but I would probably be upset if they did not feel that way. I guess our relationship is about the same, but we email all the time. I talk to my Mom probably once or twice a week, and have made an effort recently to call my Dad more. We don't talk long, usually 15 mins or so, but with my Mom I can talk for hours. She's just chatty. I would agree that family time now is more quality time since there is less of it. I don't think the distance has hurt us.
DH doesn't seem to miss his family at all really, but I do miss mine. I am used to seeing them about every two weeks, or even once a week when we lived at home - family dinners and what not. Now they have moved to TX from VA so when we do go home, the only parent close to us will be DH's Mom. She is great too, but I know it won't be the same.
I'm looking forward to lots of fun summer TX trips with my kids though
and my parents' new house wil have a pool! yay!
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well I have certainly learnt over the years that when you are out of sight (overseas) you are often out of mind
people don't not contact you because they don't care, but because they are getting on with their lives
I find I need to initiate most skypes, emails, etc. with family & friends & I've just come to acecpt that. I write a blog - so those who are interested can read about what we're up to, and if they aren't they don't have to read it. That works best for us really.