Over brunch earlier on, Mark and I ended up discussing our nephews and nieces. I have a 3 year old nephew and a 7 (or is it 8??) year old niece from my side, and Mark has a 6 year old nephew and a niece who will be arriving in about 4 month's time. Both of us have taken a back seat in lives of our nephews and niece. While we do love them, buy them stuff and have a decent relationship with them, let's just say that it's not something remarkable or something that's worth mentioning. I guess it's because neither of us made any effort at all... we simply lost interest after losing Lucas and it exacerbated after we lost Chloe.
Something that Mark said hit the nail on the head. It may sound callous, but the reason for our loss of interest is because our mentality now is that our nephews and niece have their own parents to take care of them and to love them, whereas Lucas and Chloe don't even get the chance to be doted on by us, and to savour how it feels to be in the arms of their mommy/ daddy.
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