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I don't know how to deal with my mother's side of the family. When she needed the most, they didn't help her. They left her to struggle after her divorce. Other family members have went through the same thing and they helped with a place to live and care for their children. My mom's family didn't offer to help her. When she died, they let my brother, sister, and I know that they couldn't help with her final expenses. After we made the arrangements, they criticized us (one cousin openly became hostile toward me on facebook) because of the way we did things and let us know our grandmother would not approve of what we did or as they referred to her as "their" grandmother and we better not let her find out what we did. (We had her cremated because it was what we could afford, and our mother made us promise that she wouldn't be in the funeral home while we tried to come up with the money to bury her). None of her family came to the services or sent even a card. Two of my mom's nephews and one niece and a sister did call but they were where they couldn't make it. (My mom is from a large family and her mother is still alive.)
This happened in February. Now I receive an invitation to come to a family reunion for fun and play. Seriously! How do they expect me to come to a family reunion when they haven't acted like family?
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