Family

[nats]

hi purpleball, that's really hard. i guess it might help a little bit if your host could work through issues with his family. it can make things easier, though it sounds from your post as if he might not have the capacity to do this for now. we don't have what you're talking about either, in terms of people we've grown up with and are close to. we've tried to compensate to some extent by developing friendships, but it's not the same as friends come and go. guess that's one of the reasons we've kept coming back here over the years..