Labelled as Vent but would love others experiences and thoughts.

Millennial here (93), I had a "normal" childhood growing up. Mom, Dad, older brother, yet I feel so distant from all of them.

I had a "normal" childhood upbringing with nothing overly traumatic or crazy and just a "normal" childhood. But it wasn't really, it was all a lie created by my parents and it exploded once my grandma passed in 2012.

My Mom never liked my Dads side of the family, and it seems he didn't either so we stopped contact quickly. On my Mom's side, one Uncle passed from cancer, another became a religious zealot and my fam helped my cousin 'escape' him. There are lots of cousins who have dispersed throughout Canada and the US.

I have nothing in common with my parents, my Mom is currently in the process of divorcing my Dad. Dad is in denial about it and blames his life of failure on Mom. She's looking for apartments and he can't even fathom living anywhere but a house.

Any time I talk with either of them it's family issues or work talk. We never actually talk about anything. And politics? We're all on different spectrums. I feel like I have no reason to know these people other than "they're family".

Does anyone else feel this way?