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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up with grandparents across the country and they never visited us to my memory.  Travel is hard when you get older.  We visited them once a year when I was younger but less often as we got busier/it got more expensive to get the whole family out.  However my mother was very firm about us writing letters to our grandparents and they wrote back and we talked on the phone sometimes, so I always felt close to them and loved regardless.

These days my parents travel to see their kids more than we travel to see them, but it’s still only once every few months (parents live 5-10 hour drive from kids, depending on kid).  We get together as a family once a year, and the location is determined by who is least able to travel/best able to host.  At the moment this is one of my sisters who is paying for her kid’s college and whose husband can’t get time off easily.

This is just to give you a sense of my “normal” — I so sorry to hear of your child who died young, and I totally understand why trying to drive 100 miles with a young family is daunting.  Maybe you can encourage the grandparent relationship in other ways like video chatting or having the children put together care packages to Grandma and Grandpa?[/quote]

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