Hello! So I moved out of home a year and a half ago, I live 20 minutes down the road from my family, but I work away a fair bit and work most weekends, whereas they all (mum, dad, brother) work full-time, so I see them as much as I can but we've all got busy lives. I'm struggling dealing with the fact that I'm not as involved in their lives as I used to be. I had that period after moving out where you're questioning your decision, but that was ages ago and I thought I got over it. I don't want to move back in with them, but I don't know what to do to find that middle ground. It hurts when I speak to my mum and she's telling me about what her, and dad and my brother have done, or which pub they went to dinner to the night before, especially when I was free and could have gone with them but just didn't know. So often I'm working when they're doing things so I want to join them whenever I can but I think they assume I have other things on. It doesn't help that my brother started seeing his girlfriend (disclaimer his gf is amazing and I love her to bits) after I moved out so she tags along with them for things and I guess in a way it "replaces" me. I know they're not doing it on purpose but I feel like I'm being left out of my own family. How do I tell my mum this? I love my family and I miss them so much sometimes and they literally live down the road. I don't know what to do to fix it. I don't know how to bring it up with them.
