re: Has anyone cut all ties with their family?

I haven't cut ties, and I don't plan to. With the exception of my mom, I'm just not particularly close with my family. If I don't see or speak to them, nothing is missing from my life. If I do, nothing is particularly added. I'm sure they feel the same way. I don't really understand being around people you don't really care for just because you're related. I don't hate them or anything, but if we weren't related, we would never be friends. The only thing I have in common with my brothers is we once all lived in the same house.

My cousin did this to the family. After his father passed, he moved away for grad school, married an ivy league girl, had kids, and decided they wanted to raise their kids differently than they were raised, which both were raised in very wealthy families.

He was raised Catholic and pretty much told his kids any time their grand mother visits to tell her that God isn't real, and she's a career religion teacher.

I'm all about raising your kids on whatever belief system you want but he's been a real dick about it. The last time his mom visited, once his wife got home from work she called a cab and told my aunt to leave. As she's packing her things my cousin basically told her that's the last time she's gonna see her grand kids and that they were cutting all family out of their lives.

Shitty situation for my aunt, who is the nicest woman in the world.

It's funny but I remember Walter Cronkite and The Warren Commission Report on TV news.

I remember it snowing in December 1963 and all but me got to go outside in it. It was child abuse I tell you.

Don't remember much else.