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[quote=Anonymous]My DH is essentially estranged from his parents. We haven’t seen them in over a year, and contact has been very limited, maybe once or twice during medical emergencies. Otherwise, they are not part of our lives.
That said, something odd keeps happening and I’m trying to decide whether this is just coincidence.

Earlier this month, my teen DD and I were talking in the living room about Christmas, which led to Christmases past and eventually grandma (MIL). I stepped away to take the trash out, DD went to her room, and within a minute she came running out to say that grandma had just texted her that she was thinking of her. First text in months, immediately after we’d been talking about her.

DD then pointed out that this has happened before, even before the estrangement. Whenever grandma is mentioned casually, she seems to reach out very shortly after, like the “your ears must have been ringing” phenomenon.

Then last night, DH was at the airport coming home from a business trip, and we were talking about how weird but peaceful the holidays will be without his family. We hung up, I went back to cooking, and a few minutes later DH called back to say his mom had just called and left him a voicemail.

At this point my brain is doing gymnastics. Rationally, I know this is probably coincidence and confirmation bias. But emotionally, it’s unsettling that every time she’s mentioned, she contacts one of us.

There’s no realistic way she’s listening in (no home computer, no shared devices, though she has accessed our wifi during visits), so I’m assuming coincidence, but is it?

Please talk me down if needed, or help me figure out how this might be happening! [/quote]

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