It's the better path given what the rest of my family is like. Sometimes I feel lonely being estranged, but I felt lonely when I wasn't. This way I'm not abused to my face.
I feel so alone being the estranged one. Mine and my husbands family don't understand and pity me. The irony is I pity them and their ignorance. Both sides believe they know the "truth". The entire thing is sad.
I'm happier now that my siblings and I all live away from each other, and my parents moved across the country.
Now, I don't not like my siblings. But they all have their thing that annoys me. Well, except for my younger brother. He kinda does his own thing while I do mine and we are good. My older brother is one of those people who thinks he's much deeper and more eccentric than he is. My sister is the oldest and TBM. My baby brother is a mooch who refuses to take responsibility for himself.
My parents are TBM, very hypocritically so. I'm the only one they nag about church. I finally took my stand and said we weren't doing church anymore and there has been nothing said since. They moved away and rarely speak to me but once a month or so.
All in all, we are in our own little world here and I like it that way.
I hear that... We live in the Midwest, and my TBM inlaws live 10 mn down the street. 2 of their other kids live in Utah. I wish they'd just move to the homeland already. I'd be much happier to only see them once a year.