I’ve lived in the same place for over two years now, in this amount of time, my family has never come down to visit.
I understand that they’re extremely busy people, although I believe it’s a bit silly that they cannot find time to come see my place of work, my home, or my new city, but most of all, it stings that my mother will not find time to make the trip.
I wish that he had an interest in my life as an adult’s, rather than trying to treat me like a child for the rest of my life, and unfortunately, he is unlikely to ever change his ways or hit the road to visit. In fact, when it comes to traveling, he has more anxieties than you could believe… Not only is he sad about the actual travel component, but he goes so far as to preemptively complain about the imagined indoor air quality device on said vehicle. I cannot tell you how several times I’ve heard his talk about the bad air quality on airplanes & the prevalence of nasty, airborne germs, but the thing is, he has not been on an airplane to experience the stagnant recycled air in over two decades, then when I commanded that he rents a car instead of relying on the communal airplane, he starts instantaneously hypothesizing that the on-board heating & cooling system will really not work well! She starts talking about the streaming sun heating up his vehicle, & how the on-board cooling system will only irritate his lungs rather than cooling down the hub of the car. She legitimately loves to catastrophize the entire traveling experience! Don’t worry, he leaves no stone unturned. She also loves to tell me about how uncomfortable he assumes my home’s central heating & cooling system will be.
