We live an hour and a half away from my family, 5hours from husband's with one toddler. Lately I've been really craving that closeness of my lo being part of 'the bigger picture' of the family. We are a reasonably close family on my side, had a lovely childhood and I often feel like I'm kind of stealing that away from my lo by our selfishness of living away (we have lived this distance for 10+ years prior to having a child). We probably won't have another child, my sister has two lo's very similar in age to mine and they love each other dearly, my lo asks for them all the time and it makes my heart break that were not around the corner to get a quick hug or to go for a walk together etc. We have a few close friends, work friends, baby friends etc but it's not the same as that feeling of belonging with your family. We both have stressful jobs and I just think what are we doing all this for? What really matters?
Is this just mum guilt talking?!!!