It wouldn't be weird to be remain friends with her family? Now that I think about it, one of my ex girlfriends stayed friends with my mother for years afterwards. It was a little weird, but I guess I didn't care too much.

I what I meant by not trying hard enough was that I didn't try hard enough to be who she needed me to be. I like doing housework and projects and home improvement stuff. It's kind of my thing, along with anything with a motor (there's nothing I can't fix), so I didn't mind doing it, I wasn't expecting that when she asked me over that day...on my birthday. "Happy 30th; here paint my room."