It’s been good for me to hear others are facing this. Sometimes I feel really alone. My siblings all live around here. I feel I have always been the scapegoat in my family of origin. I am always kinda the outsider and this pandemic reinforces that. My siblings regularly continue to go out to eat together, just last weekend spent a weekend evening at a casino, and go to other events together. They pretty much feel it’s an election infection and deny it exists. This week one of my grown nieces is coming and I’m sure it will be another week of going out.
I won’t be there.
I hope I at least get to see her for a few minutes but who knows. I have a 10 yo old niece I’m close to, but she goes to school, goes to sports, gymnastic etc just like nothing is going on. I feel more and more distance between me and all of them. I live in SD where one in twenty four are infected. You see few masks and social distancing.
Hopefully This ends and we can recover the relationships . They’ve never been really good, but I have no one else