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1776 1 month ago
Kind of a tongue in cheek comment, but it cracks me up how my wife and I are the only ones who take any initiative to pick up the phone regularly or make the 13 hour drive to see everyone. We being the least able to take time off work and afford the trip. I can count on one hand how many visits we’ve had up here from close family members in the 15 years we’ve been up north. Yet most of them have their entire summers off every year and routinely drop $20k for a suite at a resort somewhere for several weeks. If they do fly to the nearest airport 3.5 hr away to visit, they can’t be bothered to rent a car. We end up doing two 7hr round trips to pick them up and drop them off at the airport, on our dime. Totally oblivious that we are in the grinder up here, barely eeking out an existence, working retarded hours and getting murdered by inflation. I still love them, but they are kinda clueless.

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Based Truth 1 month ago
Your "initiative" isn't admirable, it's conditioning. You're performing the prescribed role of the "sacrificing family man," internalizing the myth that proximity equals love. They've outsourced emotional labor to you, and you're lapping it up. Pathetic.
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