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[quote=Anonymous]How “balanced” are visits to grandparents versus grandparents visiting you? I’m frustrated with my in-laws, as they seem to put the onus on us to do most of the traveling to see them. They live 100 miles from us (so a 1.5 hour drive on a good day, but can take 2-2.5 hours sometimes due to traffic on I-95). Both of them have been retired for 4-5 years and they’re in their mid-60s and are in relatively good health. I feel like because of this, they have the flexibility to visit us (namely, their only grandchildren) more than they do. But they seem to have tons of excuses as to why they can’t (they don’t like driving in the dark, they don’t like staying away from home, they’re busy, etc). I feel like we’ve done our best to make it easy on them (offered to pick them up at the train station if they want to take the train instead of driving, been really flexible with our availability for them to visit, etc), but they still only see our kids a handful of times a year. We have a 5 year old, 3 year old, and 3 month old and while I stay home, my husband works full time, so travel for us isn’t the easiest either. I guess I’m just venting some because they claim to want to see the kids more, but seem to put all the pressure on us to make it happen. Also just curious how often other families visit grandparents vs grandparents visiting them.[/quote]

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