hi maryanne and welcome to pc!  i think sometimes it's healthy to safeguard ourselves even if it's family. perhaps you and your daughter can go to a movie, take a picnic lunch in the park or visit a zoo or something. get creative, stay busy, and try not to give family "rent space" in your head. it only encourages the loneliness you feel.
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand
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