My parents never visit us - should I be hurt?

[Anonymous]

You should only be hurt if you have asked them to visit, with specifics, and still can't make it happen. Stop wasting all your vacation time on them. This is setting up an expectations problem when kids are in school.

[Anonymous]

To the woman with the basement suite and her critics:

Those modern basements are hardly below ground and usually very bright and sunny. I would love to have a guest room like that.

Your mom has other issues with sleeping at your place. It isn't the basement. I'm sorry.