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If you aren’t close to your family, it can be easy to forget that some people are close to theirs. You assume everybody rolls their eyes when they see that their mom is calling, or screams into a pillow when they hear their brother wants to stay in the guest room for a week. Some people look forward to these things? That just doesn’t compute to you. You may have spent a lot of your life thinking you’ll just wind up with friends who also don’t get along with their families. You and your friends have, in essence, saved one another from being grownup orphans; you’re each other’s family. You probably thought you’d never relate to somebody who would spend their vacation with their family…So if you come to find your new boyfriend does this, you might need to take a step back. Here’s what it’s like when your partner is close with his family, and you aren’t close with yours.

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You don’t make it home for every birthday/anniversary

Your boyfriend often assumes you’ll be going home for the weekend, because it’s your mother’s birthday or your parents’ wedding anniversary. He even makes other plans for himself, assuming you’ll be away. You have to try to explain to him that you’re not a terrible person because you don’t book a flight home for every event in your family. It’s just…not like that in your fam.

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