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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you point the finger at someone else, look at your own hand.  You'll see that there are three fingers pointing right straight back at you.  Think about it.[/quote]

If there is something I could do to shift the dynamic, I’m all ears. As I said, I feel that I express an interest in their lives and ask after their work/activities/friends/family. I actually have a pretty good sense of what’s going on with them, even know which of their friends are vaccinated and which not, stuff like that. They really know nothing about my life.

I think other PPs are right I probably have to accept it. I ask because my DH and I have successfully improved the dynamic with my MIL in recent years and it would be great to do the same with my parents. But with her it was the opposite problem— she was nosy and invasive and we just had to talk to her about it and establish better boundaries. Now we talk to her all the time and are looking forward to visiting as soon as we’re all vaccinated and I feel like we have a really healthy give and take.

But at least she was interested in us and especially her granddaughter. My parents don’t seem to care. And my MIL is older and a widow, so it seems weird that my parents would be experiencing more cognitive decline. They really do just seem selfish sometimes.[/quote]

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