Question

Is it normal to not care about your extended family?

I have extended family that my parents always love to visit and I always hated visiting them out of state when I was a kid and now I no longer visit them as I really don't care about them.

My parents think I should care about the extended family and still visit with them and travel to visit them and call them?

But I really don't care to know them even though they are okay people.

Anyone else not care about their extended family?

Answer 1

It's very normal to not care about your extended family.

Just because those people are your family it doesn't mean that you have to love them or like them or even see or call them if you don't want to do so.

I have extended family that also live out of state and I haven't seen them for around 20 years since I was a kid and I have no need to see them or talk to them either.

I just am mainly around my close and immediate family, but have no need to see or speak to my extended family and I don't care if they come see me either.

When I was a kid I always hated stopping and hanging around our extended family including my cousins and aunts and uncles and was always ready to leave.

My parents always wanted to visit with them when we went out of state and it was really awkward as I really was never around them that much.
 
If you feel that you don't want to see them or care about them, then that's up to you.

Answer 2

Not caring about your extended family is normal.

Not everyone is close to their extended family, especially when the extended family live out of stat or far away and you have no obligation to call them, speak to them, visit them or hang out with them and you also have the right to not care about them.

You also have the right to not care about your own parents or siblings if they are not good to you.

Most of my extended family live way far away and yes they want us to travel 1,000 miles or more to visit them a few times a year but I'm not doing that.

They even offer to come visit me, but I really do not want them around even though they are not bad people.

I just hate hanging out with people I rarely see anyway and I also really have nothing to say to them as it would just be very awkward to have them over or even if me and my kids and and spouse would also visit them.

I barely am comfortable even being at close families houses, even when I see them more often.

I mainly sit around and sit in silence although if they say something I will talk, but it's hard for me to come up with any conversation unless someone else starts a conversation and so it's very awkward.