Managing familial expectations can sometimes feel like an entire part time side job. Relatives can feel entitled to your time, being busy can be perceived as a personal slight, and sometimes people just don’t accept that most folks have a life.
A woman asked the internet if she was wrong to stop visiting her relatives. Since she was the only childless sibling, she was always expected to travel for multiple hours to just spend time around their loud and chaotic children. We reached out to her via private message and will update the article when she gets back to us.
