Bought Home; Feeling Very Sad

Long-time FTHB user here. Using an alt account because I don't want it tied to my usual one. (The reason why will be left for a future post.)

My wife and I closed on our first house today. I know it is a major life event for anyone but it is an especially major one for us because of the struggles we've had to go through. My wife's parents were abusive to her. My dad left before I was born and my mom preferred to drink instead of parenting. When we got married and had kids, we got absolutely nothing from any of them. No money. No help. Nothing. (Actually, we did get insults - but we're not counting that.) Anyway, it's through our hard work alone that our family now has a forever home. We are incredibly proud. But we're also incredibly sad because we have no one with whom to celebrate. Our kids are too young to understand our accomplishments. Our parents have no idea we did this. We didn't get so much as a "congratulations" from our loan officer since we left on horrible terms (the future post). And our agent just shook our hand after closing and left with his $18K check.

As pathetic as it sounds, we were just hoping that you all could celebrate with us. This is the culmination of over a decade of hard work and your kind words would mean the world to us.