[DJ MacWoW]

My father doesn’t get to see his grandchildren much, about once a year, since my half-sister refuses to ever visit us in Tennessee. I’ve never seen either my (half)niece or nephew.

I'll never understand this kind of stuff. I have a brother who introduced himself to my friends as my half-brother. I gasped and asked him which half was missing. He never said it again.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, it’s half because we share the same father, but we weren’t raised together (she is 12 years older than me), so it’s hard to consider her a full-fledged sibling. She grew up in CA and detested being forced by her mother as a teenager to come here to TN for the summer where she had no friends, no car and nowhere to go (though in hindsight, I absolutely sympathize with her misery when she was here, and eventually she refused to come here altogether - she last came with her late mother about 27 years ago). I haven’t seen her since her wedding over 18 years ago. It’s her choice, she could come if she wanted to, I just find it astonishing she hasn’t.