Since COVID, but beginning long before hand, families across America have been drifting apart. Family gatherings have become more race every year. It's not uncommon in the current year for even closely related family members like first cousins to never see each other.
I've experienced this personally. My family was extremely close up until 2020. Then, one great aunt died (not from COVID, btw). After that, the family has literally stopped having reunions and no one talks to each other anymore. Apparently, this one woman was the only thing holding the family together. Now we're scattered across the cosmos with no interaction. I'm one of the few people who even calls my relatives anymore.
Did you experience this?