My mother and father divorced when I was five years old. I was their only child. They both remarried; my father had a son fifteen years younger than me and my mother had two daughters ten years younger than me. I didn't see my brother much because my dad lived far from me. We are cordial but not close. My dad is a selfish person and in 2006 when I had no income I asked him for money to keep the electric on and he declined. A couple years ago my son and I drove five hours to see him and his wife and I had planned on staying three or four days but he asked me to leave on the second day because our presence was stressing his wife. My son and I are low maintenance. We don't need cooked meals, sandwiches are fine. But whatever we left.

Now about my mom and sisters. They are a codependent mess. They all live together. Neither of my sisters have had a romantic relationship ever. The closest was one of my sisters had a date for the high school prom. They do everything together and have few friends that are not family. I have felt as though I didn't belong with them for several years. One time my sister was talking about how much money the lottery was and how much they would have after they split it three ways, split between the two sisters and my mom. Another time one sister brought a cup of tea upstairs for my other sister and mentioned that the tea was something they did special sometimes. Nobody asked me if I wanted tea.

My uncle and aunt are in this week to visit family. They don't come often because it is a ten hour drive. I was invited to come visit the for lunch yesterday but I didn't wake up until 1:30pm and thought they would be gone by the time I took a shower. They were there until 9pm but I didn't know that until today. I talked to my mom a few minutes ago asking how long they will be in town. She told me they planned to visit their grandchildren tomorrow and leave town Friday. Then she said that tomorrow (Thursday) they were going to pick her up in the afternoon and meet my sisters for dinner. My son and I were not invited for dinner. I have enough money to pay for our dinner and I feel left out once again.

There are so many other examples of how I don't fit in with either family but I don't want to drag this on and on because I think you get the idea.

What should I do? Should I stop caring that I have no family? It seems that my son is the only one who cares. I feel isolated and sad.