Driving six hours home in the middle of the night is a pretty clear signal that a visit did not go well. 

The woman who got this signal and shared it with the world via Reddit is A 42-year-old woman who spent years rebuilding her relationship with her father and brother made the trip to see her family and left early, alone, after her stepmother cycled through various types of pretty unacceptable criticism, and comments about her husband, and a formal sit-down about the crime of cooking dinner with her 13-year-old nephew.