Naturalist wrote:
Sometimes I hate my extended family and wish I could take my husband and son to live in some other country where we could make our own lives.
The only morsel of advice I can give you is do not do that. My mother did that with my Dad, me and my siblings. I am the eldest, so I remember my extended family and sort of keep in touch. But my brother and sister don't know them at all and our family are strangers to them. Don't take your children away from their family. And don't talk badly about your family in front of your son it will only estrange him from them.
Every so often my aunts want to know if I'll visit them or want to visit me, but I feel uncomfortable around them. They are strangers to me and all my mother's years of brain washing me telling me how horrible they are because she couldn't cope with them makes me feel uncomfortable around them and I feel sorry for my siblings that they don't feel safe and comfortable around our family either. It's a real shame.
Edit - Not that I'm saying you are as extreme as my Mother, she has some serious none Autism related emotional problems.
18 Oct 2013, 5:40 pm
