Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My friend and I took a long walk, stopping for cappucinos, to buy books, and to get some produce.  We found these amazing white apricots that were sweet perfection.  We got to talking about not having families to support us, and making friends into family.  But she has a mother, who lives with her, a sister, brother-in-law and a niece and nephew.  I have only two cousins and an aunt who connect with me.  Then I got back and my husband said his sister had emailed him and suggested she, he and their brother meet.  This is after decades of not seeing each other.  Is this good our bad?  I don't know.  I will not be invited to meet.  And I'm kind of done, having had no interest from either the brother or sister in me, any of our kids, or our grandchildren.  They don't know their birthdays or names.  I feel like my husband should do whatever feels right, and I'm staying out of it, but there is a tipping point, and for me it was not rsvping to our kids' weddings.  Okay, don't come, fine, but NO response?!  They are not family to me.  As I said to my friend, I'm a little bit to Old Testament at this point.  They've had 45 years to connect, and I guess I've had the same amount of time to disconnect.  It's sad, but true.