Is it normal to feel empty around your own family?

Very often, your family thinks less of you than anyone else does - and that's actually pretty normal! They've known you your entire life, and sometimes familiarity breeds contempt - or at least, boredom. Very often, your family will try to sabotage any efforts you make to better your life, whether out of jealousy or something else. They certainly don't want you getting all uppity and thinking that you're better than they are, and they especially don't want you to prove that you are better than they are! Better to make you think you are less than nothing than to risk that happening. Yeah, family very often sucks. I found that the less I was around mine, the better I felt about myself. Eventually, I all but cut them out of my life. In return, my parents disinherited me. When I consider all the family drama and soul-crushing, emotional toxic waste dumping I managed to escape over the years, I'd say it was a bargain.

I think your family are really important and about the only ones in life who will always stand by you. Relationships are never one-way. If they're 'looking through' you... how are you 'looking' at them? Are you being respectful, interested in them, contributing to the family? Or are you isolating yourself and making yourself more lonely? It can be hard to 'get back in there' - but start with little comments and talking and you'll soon feel comfortable and part of the family again. They'll have missed you !

We usually feel lonely when surrounded by people with whom we don`t identify at all or very little, we just don`t find ways to connect with them cause they`re so far removed from the way we think and feel. I think the weird feeling here is not the loneliness per se but the fact that one finds this impossibility to feel close to people one has been seeing one`s whole life and yet there is no similarity. I consider myself an orphan even though I do have a "family" in the biological sense of the word, but they`re not MY family cause we have nothing in common therefore, we are not familiar. I feel lonely around these people in most ways that I can even count, but the worst kind of loneliness is moral and intellectual. It is impossible for me to attempt a conversation with this people, they can`t elaborate on anything and all they talk about are without any content. Is horrible to be among such beings.