Family

My family is reasonably civil. I am married, and though we are friendly enough, it is a marriage of convenience, that is in the middle of healing a breaking of trust. My daughter requested to be adopted by her father when she was 15, and he was a good man. My brother and sister have their own lives. As such, my family is distant but friendly and we get together at holidays and the occasional birthday where the grandparents faun over the grandchildren, and the rest of us drink some wine and talk.

All in all we respect each other. If there was need for help, then we would help out materially. We were each raised to be independent and that has some advantages. As far as challenging, when I was younger, my relationship with my father defined most of the challenge in my family life. Now, that has long since passed and it is just not a thing.

It is actually a bit of a relief that family is not a big deal these days. In some ways I have been a disappointment and I needed to learn how to deal with that. In others I have been a smashing succes, and likewise I needed to figure out how to deal with that. All in all, those lessons have subsided for now, and I suspect things to be slow and easy until the funerals begin.