Any other single no kids, no grandkids aunt or uncle who feels invisible at the holidays with family?

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8. Considering therapy is always a good idea

for any reason but might I suggest stepping out out of your comfort zone a little bit. I have a big family we get together every time my brother is in town. We go to the same pizza restaurant where I don’t even really like the pizza, but we go anyways because it can seat all of us and we sit and we all get caught up in about our lives and then we go home. One year when we were at a pizza night I suggested that we go bowling at a local bowling alley. Now to know me is to know that I’m not a real joiner kind of person. to everyone it was unusual that I came up with this idea, but I wanted to do something different and break everybody out of the usual conversations and just mix things up a little bit we went bowling and it was a lot of fun and we even did it a couple more times. Now, we also include game nights when we’re getting together for a family night. It just helps break us out of our routine about talking about ourselves ad nauseam and often having somebody feeling left out. Not sure if this helps you at all, but I just thought I would share it. .