I don't think my experience is unusual: our blood relatives tend not to give a hoot about our blogging activities. They say blood is thicker than water, but consanguinity sure doesn't seem to translate into spiritual affinity. No matter, the community that we can't find by blood, we'll find by blog.
The people who know us take us for granted. Is it not written that "no prophet is welcome in his hometown"? (Luke 4, 24: nemo propheta acceptus est in patria sua.)
One could call it the injustice of propinquity. We often underestimate those nearby, whether by blood or space, while overestimating those afar.