Some of my partner’s siblings were going away for the weekend, some had grandchild sports events (baseball games), and my own sibling was babysitting and therefore could stop in for only a few minutes. Needless to say, we had faithfully attended each and every event in the family up to this point, but no one felt the urge to help us celebrate when it was our turn.
Our kids have been ignored now that our siblings’ grandkids have arrived. This is not the only story I could tell like this; I could write a book. Consequently, we’ve decided that because our kids have been ignored, we will not celebrate the next generation’s events. Our relatives seem puzzled that we’re not as enthralled with the preschool graduations and first birthdays of their grandkids, but, hey, where were they?
