Families drifting apart

[LemograssLollipop]

After the loss of both parents, I'm finding us siblings are drifting apart. It's really sad. We agree to keep in touch but despite the myriad of ways to do this in these modern times, it doesn't happen.
I guess people's priorities change but it's still very sad.

From my experience both my own and from that of people I know, this is sadly, a very common thing to happen after the last surviving parent has died.
It feels as if the reason siblings got together, as adults, was out of habit, to please a parent, letting DC's get to know their grandparent, celebrating family events for as long as they can together.
The central figure that kept the family together has died, and suddenly, the time spent gathering gets swallowed up with each family's own time together.
In my own family, the family now makes the time to gather together virtually only once during the Christmas season.
It is very sad, and I suppose it's an original family drifting apart to concentrate on their own families, where the pattern is then repeated.