waste

I'll never understand my in laws. On Thanksgiving, Kim and I got up at 2:30 am so he could drive to Atlanta to catch his flight to Salt Lake. Arianna was going to pick him up in Salt Lake. Kim's flight got delayed and by the time he got to Salt Lake both he and Arianna ended up missing Thanksgiving. Kim went to Idaho so he could go to his parent's 50th wedding anniversary party on Friday. He didn't want to go but his sister Lynn went to the trouble to plan it and with all the silliness going on in his family he felt it would be the last time they all got together. It turns out that Kim's sister Shann threw an invitation only party for their parents on their anniversary and invited almost everyone the Lynn had invited. She left out Kim, Lynn, Dell, Fwan, and Jan though over half the brother and sisters. To make a long story short, the party that Lynn planned was ruined and Shann and Todd never showed. We gave up having our first holiday in over a year together so Kim could go to this for nothing. Now it's over, Kim won't be going back there for any reason. He may go to hunt with Dell but as far as the family goes it will never get back together. Kim is saying he won't even go back for funerals. His family's rift is beyond repair and the ones who care are not the ones who are in the wrong. I don't understand why Alene (Kim's mom) would do this. She let Shann plan this party and went along with it. Why didn't Robert (Kim's dad) do something. Parents are suppose to try and heal the wounds between their kids not make them worse. Alene drives wedges between her kids. She makes up stuff, tells it to the people involved and it makes bad situations worse. It is a waste. A waste of the holiday. A waste of a good family. A waste of a good relationship. A waste of a good life.