old parents
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- BusterBoy2
I used to have an awesome family!
When my granparents were around, they had dinners every Sunday where everyone was welcome. My Dad lived in another state but everyone else used to turn up. My brothers and their wives/kids. Me, my wife & kids. Aunt and her husband and kids. Uncle. Grandparents. Was excellent.
Family was always there for each other.
Then they slowly started to pass away. First my grandparents...the regular get togethers stopped. Then my Dad died when I was 26. Then my Mum when I was in my early 30s. My Mum was the glue holding things together and after she died, it all turned to shit. My Aunt did a horrendous thing to her brother that crippled him financially. My brothers don't speak anymore.
It's just rank.
And while my wife's family are OK, there's a bunch of deadbeat, mentally ill druggies that I just don't want my kids to have anything to do with.
Life is so much different than I thought it was going to be.