Only my aunt, who lives far away, accepts us in a way we are. The rest of the family simply ignore us. We are crazy in they eyes and they don’t need crazy people around.
Pants, tv, movie, not kosher food, etc. not a big loss. They are not missed.
Getting harder to work without vacation, 15 days vacation my company gives = days of Jewish holidays in a most of the years.
Would be nice to be on Yom Tov with grandchildren, but not enough vacation days to travel to/from another state.
I will not say we “gave up”, I will say “we made our choice”.