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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it feel to know that one day you, too, will be reviled for just wanting to spend time with your adult children and get to know your grandchildren? If that's not your "plan", then please tell me how you intend to avoid being avoided and gossiped about by your own children and their spouses?[/quote]

You do realize that at least some of the people complaining here complain because of a lack of involvement by the grandparents. DH and I definitely do not revile his parents. However, we are hurt, he is especially since they are his parents, that his parents do not want to be more involved at getting to know our kids (their only grandchildren) and spending time with him, their son. Our plan, frankly, is to try harder when our kids are adults and to treat them like independent adults whose lives we want to be involved in. My in-laws don't do this with either DH or his sister and both of them are hurt by the lack of involvement by their parents and have really attached to their spouse's families since those relationships are much more involved and healthier.  [/quote]

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