Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I just saw how many are estranged from their children!

Two sisters. One 3 1/2 hrs away. We get together two or three times a year. Wife's brother lives close to there, so we see him also. Other sister lives in Kansas. I live in SC. We get together every couple of years but email and talk often. Son and daughter from last marriage live close and see them all the time. Son and daughter from first marriage live close, but haven't see or talked to that daughter since 2003 and haven't seen or talked to that son longer than that. First wife did a job on them.

No one's disowned in my family yet, they are all pretty tight, I'm the only one who lives far away. Most all my annual vacation trips over the last 35 years have been to visit them and my parents. About fifteen years back my sister's husband left her for his pregnant girlfriend leaving her and their three kids. Best thing he ever did, it let his kids see exactly who he was, afterwards they circled around their mom like musk oxen protecting their own. I would go there in the summer specifically to take them hiking, camping and shooting, the stuff their father shoulda been doing.

Six years back I was up there for a funeral and their father's parked truck got hit by a car and totaled, the lack of concern evinced by his three by then grown children was telling.

Whelenman: Over the decades of my law enforcement career I became familiar with the incredibly high numbers of families that have "estrangements" in their clans!
Estrangements are VERY common in American families (sadly).
I feel lucky that I am on good terms with all my VarmintChildren as well as my siblings, nephews, nieces, cousins, aunts and uncles.
I was especially close with my now (recently) deceased parents. I did have one mother-in-law that was a pain in the ass but we remained civil to each other (political differences) right up until her recent passing.
Takes effort sometimes but it is worth it (IMO) to remain civil/friendly with "relatives".
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Thankful I have great children, can’t imagine hard feelings with any of them!

My sister and I are working on it.

Everything is her, how it affects her, or how she thinks it should be.

Darn shame, we have been through some [bleep] together.

I'm tired of being nice to those who aren't nice to me and mine,
her loss.

Don't worry Buddy, yer a Dickweed not an asswhole..........

Just like anyone else in life, you need to rid yourself of people who will bring you or your family down. If they are a sibling, so be it.

The sooner this is learned the better.

Damn, never realized so many families are so dysfunctional. Most hillbilly families are pretty tight I guess. Not much choice, if you wanted to survive you had/have to stick together. Might be some infighting, but all it takes is an outsider to rally against to bring us all together again. You have roots that run back 300 years, continuously, in a geographical area....it tends to build tight klans.

I'm not close to any of my family, except my mom and even then she hasn't come see me since 2002 or 2003: I always go to see her. I've got a large extended family but have only met them a handful of times and don't have any of their contact info.

I've a sister who I get along with, but rarely see or talk to. Her husband and I don't see eye to eye on things. I have another sister who would be on the street if she wasn't living at home with my mom. She's almost 48, barely makes a dime and is mostly liberal to boot. If she didn't live at home I likely wouldn't have seen or talked to her in 23 years.

I've lived by myself since leaving home in 1997 and most likely always will. I'm not exactly a people person.

Dads dead
Talk via phone to mom weekly.
I have six brothers and sisters. I talk to some weekly and some just several times a year. Get along fine with all of them.

Thanks Toby! I was really worried about that!!!

Three sons. Oldest and I don’t talk. He is a deadbeat dad and generally a bleep up. He is in his mothers pocket and she has destroyed any chance of him being anything. Other two sons are fine hardworking guys. We get along well.