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[quote=Anonymous]If your kids were 2 and 5 and hadn't had a lifetime of relationship development with them at this point, I think I'd say whatever and stop trying. But your kids miss their grandparents. There is a relationship that was built and cultivated over a decade.

Do they still talk on the phone? Facetime? I would show up for a weekend. Or I would reach out to the siblings to try to set something up, try to make a family holiday happen. Your kids seeing their grandparents just emotionally disconnect from them permanently would be incredibly hurtful. This is time for DH to call his parents and be really up front about this, 'Mom and Dad, Tommy and Julie really miss you and COVID has been hard on them, we really want to set up a time for you to see them, and its important to the kids, they miss you, what can we make happen in the next month?'

At the end of the day people don't always rise to the occasion, but the people who will be hurt here are burgeoning teens who are age where it is most important/helpful to have a robust healthy and loving network of family behind them.[/quote]

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