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[quote=Anonymous]Your daughters are both highly intelligent women, fully capable of making decisions about their personal lives without you interjecting and telling them how miserable they’ll be if they don’t conform to your idea of how life should be lived and what should be the important milestones in life.

Seriously, you should butt out and just love them as they are. They know what they are doing. Many younger people, especially women, are not interested in marriage or motherhood. It is entirely valid to eschew those institutions and many of us do so quite happily.

Everyone ends up with some regrets in life and midlife and elder years can be a time of emotional difficulties for all kinds of people, especially women in the season of the change of life - but that doesn’t mean your sister is sorry about her choices, either. You shouldn’t assume that unless she’s specifically told you so - otherwise you are again imposing your ideals on other people’s lives.

It’s okay to not be a grandparent. If you love your daughters for who they choose to be, they’ll take good care of you as you grow old. [/quote]

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