I was very close to my little brother until my father and his wife blamed me for something I didn't do. It's a long story. We text occasionally now, but that's it. It makes me very sad.

My sister is married with two sons. Her oldest is 10 now. We have issues, but love one another, and have grown apart over the years. She's pushed away further since my psych hospitalizations, but we still text.

I haven't talked to my half-sister for years because all she wanted to do was talk about my father's physical (towards our mothers) and psychological abuse. I kept trying to steer our conversations away from that, but was ultimately unsuccessful, and slowly our contact dropped off. I still send her Christmas cards, but she's stopped sending them to me.