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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I wish I knew!

My paternal grandparents had 10 kids, about 1.5 years between them. I have about 20 cousins. My grandparents were exactly as you mention. I fondly remember gatherings, the “adult table” and the “kids table”, the adults all kibitzing, the kids running amok outside. Every so often, my grandparents would head out to the covered porch and watch us. WATCH. From afar. They’d have coffee and cake and watch us play. They weren’t busybodies, they probably didn’t even know what our interests were, but we knew they loved us. My grandma was aloof but I KNEW my grandpa loved all of us. He didn’t need to spend every waking weekend day with us, either. He never once attended a school function.

My parents and my ILs are UP OUR ASSES and I can’t stand it. Maybe it goes in cycles, because I see myself being more like my grandparents than my parents.[/quote]

LOL yes this exactly. Its not only being up your ass and forcing yourself onto others but competing and being obsessed with how much access the other granny is getting. My mother and MIL seem to be going for Olympic gold in the competitive granny games. My grandmother did not give a crap what the other granny was getting. [/quote]

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