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[quote=Anonymous]same situation, down to coming for grad school, staying with American husband and now two kids.  I am very close to my family, and after 15 years we are still very close. I go once a year, but I try to arrange to work remotely from my parents' home me and the kids can stay 4 or 5 weeks instead of 1 or 2.  my dad comes in the fall/winter once a year (mom cannot take airplanes), and Skype is my lifesaver. we Skype often, sometimes for just a few minutes. when kids have breakfast in the morning, they can say hi and chat with grandma two minutes before going to school. my mom wakes up around 4 am so often she calls me while I am working at the computer in the evening, and we chat a few minutes (they are 6 hours ahead, in Europe). I Skype with my siblings during the weekends, and exchange e-mails with them. sometimes I see something funny at work and e-mail them a joke, and they respond quickly, even just a few words. my kids are close to my family, when my then 2 year old got to the airport in my parents' home town she immediately recognized my parents who were there to pick us up, although she had seen them in person only exactly a year earlier when she was 1. my kids are also very close to their 2 and 3 yr old cousins, although they saw them in person twice  (once a year in the past two years). they skyped regularly, even when the cousins were less than a year old and could not talk. my kids would sing to them, play silly, show them puppets, do all kids of stuff and the babies were watching in awe. obviously it is not the same things as being there, but you can have a close relationship even though you are apart. the real issue for me is when you live far away and the parents get old and sick and you cannot be there to take care of them or even say goodbye. a friend went to see her mother overseas a while ago because the mother was terminally ill. the friend could stay only about 10 days and then had to come back although the mother was still alive and in a situation where she could have die in a day or in 4 months. but I guess this happens also to people in the US living in different states as their parents. mine are still relatively young and healthy, but after seeing my family I started thinking about how I will face the same situation when it is my turn [/quote]

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