My family disappoints me a lot too. But I don't think too much of it. Like this one time I took the wife ands kids out to dinner, the children got rowdy and threw their food. Manners please!

No, I can't say that my family disappoints me. I don't think I have any business expecting my adult children, their spouses, my sisters, father, cousins and aunts to have the same agenda I do, or to share my priorities. If I invite someone to do something and they tell me they can't or don't want to, I have no problem with that. That said, I don't choose to associate with people who are discourteous or take advantage of others. It doesn't matter whether it's family or friends. If a bunch of people agreed to show up and didn't, and I'd bought all that food and all those beverages and prepared some sort of entertainment, I'd know better the next time and enjoy the company I did have. Next time you plan a get-together, tell the people you are inviting that they need to contribute to the food, because you are only buying enough for those who you know you can count on.

I don't have much family and I don't invite them over, I visit them. My mom and dad are too lazy to drive 10 miles to my home.

Yes my family continually disappoint me but i learn not to let it get to me.

Has my family disapointed me lately? Why should today be different than any other day?

Son... I am disappoint.

First, remember that you and your son are worthy! It is nice to have family members commit to forwarding and cherishing their relationships with family. There seems to be a lot "out" there to distract and rob us from spending quality time together. Unless there have been serious problems in one's family- I don't think it is unusual to desire and expect-heaven forbid!--that family members would have as one of their "priorities" to spend time with one another as adults. That used to be a natural expectation. Perhaps, some have felt disenfranchised within their family unit and thus-as a protective measure- they don't have ANY expectations of their family relations. To set yourself up for the greatest success--I have found that to get almost any group together one must approach it with enthusiasm and great energy. Start early with calls or emails, appeal to the heart in your invitees with comments like "it won't be the same without you"- "this gathering means a lot to us". GET commitments over the phone or in person ( harder to say no)-ask for contributions of food or bringing a game-something that fosters a sense of commitment to the event. After all is said and done- remember that there will just be some that don't "get it" and they may be on a difficult journey of their own that takes them away for a time. Rather than spending time "wishing" for what seems not to be...move forward without bitterness- cultivate and give thought to those relations that do give you pleasure! The SOURCE of your happiness is something carried within you -completely independent of what others say and do....strive to remember and practice that. Happy Mother's Day!

Something to add to my previous answer is-- ask yourself is it nice/fun to be around your family--because there may be a message here, too that if-when the family gathers- there is a lot of gossip or old hurts brought up or mean comments made...maybe people just don't want to paritcipate in the "old" patterns any more. EVEN if it is family. It's an honest thing to look at sometimes in the family dynamics...and an honest answer in your own mind-can be very helpful to the future of the relations.