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I was studying abroad so I came home after a year found out my father had a stroke and no one told me.

My sister causally told me couple weeks back that my uncle died 6 months ago.

I have an Aunt Linda, and my reaction would have been about the same. "Meh."

Here's my sister giving me some serious news about a family member.

!foundthenecromancer

I found out my mother had HEART SURGERY two weeks ago when my sister sent a weird "she's out of the operating room and I recovery" message, I thought she meant her mother in law and was informing my parents on the family group text, since my parents know her a lot better than I do.

Nope. It was my own mother, and nobody told me about a surgery they all knew about 6 months in advance.

I found out my first cousin had a second child literally a year after she gave birth because everyone thought I was told by someone else.

BTW, this could be an intentional thing to try and convince you to move back to the local area.

There's that one famous Reddit story recently about someone who's family went as far as not telling her about a major funeral and then gaslighting her when she realized and didn't drop the issue.

It's because they post everything on Facebook and I don't go on Facebook.

My family communicated exclusively through a Facebook Messenger group chat and my sister keeps posting pictures of her daughter so all the important stuff goes way up in the history. I don't even have Facebook Messenger on my phone. I rarely if ever check the messages because I've removed Facebook from my life.

My dad on 2 separate and unrelated occasions.

Him. Almost recovered from my surgery

Me. Wtf what surgery.

Him. I put it on Facebook

“Son I’m going in for cancer surgery tomorrow. Everything will be fine… take care of your father, you know he’s basically useless on his own.”

Literally 2 days ago. Don’t worry, she’s fine.

My dad

"Well your grandmother is out of the hospital"

She was in the hospital???

Yea I found out from my server at a restaurant that my cousin killed himself. She was his friend. It had been months since it happened and no one told me that he passed, even though I saw my family recently. Fucked up.

Linda always brought those awful jello molds to family events, so maybe there’s a silver lining.

"The family has COVID"
"Oh, okay"
2 days later
Sister sends me a screenshot of a Facebook post in which my mother's in the hospital