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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here - Yes, it is the kind thing to do but I'm not sure how to explain her or the relationship to my kids as they age. Her life reads like a sad country song and my family brings her joy. She had a baby as a teenager, several abusive marriages, addiction and rehab, mental hospital stays for a series of issues. She now lives off disability and her main interests are astrology, smoking pot, and reality TV. Given that my husband didn't know of her existence through his childhood it feels like we were randomly assigned this woman a few states away to spend an annual holiday with and weekly phone call.

Fwiw we have a great relationship with my family and I've never had a problem making an effort to visit and care for my elderly grandparents, but these have been life long loving relationships.[/quote]

OP, there are a lot of things that are hard to explain to my kids.  Why some people are  homeless; prejudice; the Holocaust; disability; war; slavery; murder; plane crashes, why planes fly.  I could go on all day.  Parents don't get excused from the hard questions.  That's life.  I'm sorry your family is not neatly packaged for you as upper-middle-classedly as you would have liked.  Please send her to my house.  We can deal with some rough edges here.[/quote]

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