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I don’t think these people are good for your mental health (sometimes).
Extended family…the blessing and the curse.
Extended family can be a blessing and a curse.
One day you’re invited over to a Christmas Eve party to enjoy a delicious meal together, and then you could be angry someone didn’t come to your graduation the next.
The curse is amplified when you come from a family of bitter anti-socials.
Extended family is more like “once in a while I’ll see you but we’re related” family.
But are they more of a curse than a blessing?
They put unnecessary burdens on you.
Let’s be honest, it’s hard to get extended family on the same page.
Next thing you know you’re left doing a large chunk of the work that others dropped the ball on.
Note: Make sure you’re not the one planning your family barbecues
My family tends to jungle the ball around of who is the leader of making sure each task for a family event is done. It moved from my cousin, to my other cousin, to my mom, to no one.
Everyone got so annoyed planning things by themselves that we haven’t had a family barbecue in five years.
