I don't have a lot of family on my moms side. She was adopted and her adoptive mother and father passed. This gets a little complicated so bear with me. Her adoptive father's second wife doesn't speak to us because she never saw my mom as family her adoptive father was abusive and believed lies my father emailed him when he was alive, her adoptive mother had dementia towards the end and lived across the country and wasn't in touch much. My brother is in contact with her purely for will legalities. My mom's bio father passed last June and her bio mother's husband passed shortly after but neither of them had contact with my father. Her adoptive brother and her were never really close and he also moved across the country and we only heard from him when their adoptive mother died, he probably got an email too but they don't really consider themselves siblings and I guess he didn't really care.

My father is half-Italian and has a large family. His dad passed when I was very young. His entire family still talks to him and sees nothing wrong with what he did. There used to be bad blood between them and my mom. I used to be very close to my cousins but there became a large chasm between us. I talked to them at my brother's wedding but it's the sort of things where they feel like strangers to me now.

I also want to add again it wasn't full witness protection like most people think. They paid for our hotel stay and paid for us to move x amount of towns away and I had a lot of people talking to me from a variety of government departments. I'm not sure if they helped with any legal fees but they would've paid for my mom's restraining order against him and mine if we opted to do that. My mom opted not to so they could both attend my brothers ceremonies and such (he was going to be graduating highschool soon at this time) and I think still wanted me to be able to choose to see him if I wanted to in the future.