This is a public call, all free of charge, but if you could do me a favor and just stay off names and places, I would be thrilled.

For sure. You're great to do these. I really appreciate it again.

Yeah, sure. So I'm a fifth time caller, 15-year listener. Sounds crazy.

Always love our discussions. I left my family of origin two and a half

years ago by writing my mom and dad each a short letter was pretty succinct to the point my mom

reaches out maybe once or twice a year usually via email can be a bit nasty sometimes or make

passive aggressive comments. Dad reaches out honestly a lot, like via email. Monthly, sometimes more

often than that, usually begging for contacts as he's going to therapy. He's provided proof of

that recently. But none of them ever address anything really that I wrote in the letter.

It's just about them, how they feel, how they're feeling empty, they want to see their grandkids.

What will your children think when they grow up?

What will you say when they spend their grandfather? Frick, they'll never know me.

You're killing me. I can't live like this. So I'm curious your take on this, especially within the

context of my parents getting older, inevitable health issues, possible financial things.

And then there's some other people in my extended family.

Again, I don't talk to them.

That's been a long time.

But funerals, my grandma's funeral was a couple weeks ago.

I want to be authentic and guard my peace.

But I also don't want to have any regrets.

So, yeah, I guess, not that I'm second guessing myself, but I just wanted to do a little

quick sanity check, given that my parents, you know, they do reach out.

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