It's just that

It’s just that family is generally and too often, taken for granted.

I wonder if “It” means “1”,“2” or anything else.

1. they very easily could be part of the daily routine if you practiced more often.
2. compliments are not always part of the daily routine.

A reporter, interviewing a couple who were nearing their 50th wedding anniversary, asked them the secret to

their long and successful marriage. The husband said that he learned the secret from his father-in-law.

A few weeks before the day of the wedding, the young man asked his future father-in-law what he could do to

make his wife-to-be happy. He received his answer in a small package given to him by the father-in-law on the

morning of the wedding. The father-in-law said, “This is all you need to know to make your marriage work.”

Opening the package, the husband-to-be found a gold pocket watch. Inscribed across the cover of the watch

where he would be sure to see it several times a day was the message: “Say something nice to Sarah.”

It seems simple enough to do, but from your own family life you are probably aware that However, they very

easily could be part of the daily routine if you practiced more often. It’s just that family is generally and too often,

taken for granted. Therefore, little things are overlooked.