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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate this thread. I am not sure what will happen with my three children. One is gay and doesn’t want kids, second doesn’t want children or marriage, jury is out on the third. I go to an old lady water aerobics class and as I have gotten to know the ladies I am realizing that bragging about your grandchild is the old lady equivalent of “My Marvin is so gifted. Reading three grade levels ahead and the other day the teacher said. . “ It’s completely tone deaf, is just a way of bragging about yourself, it’s a weird flex etc. There are many
Other lovely women with a variety of family situation but they don’t continually broadcast it, just like people didn’t broadcast about their child’s dyslexia etc.[/quote]

I'm so sorry you feel that way. My parents pretty much only talk about their grandchildren, but it's not to brag/flex. It's mostly that they don't have anything else exciting going on to talk about (the weather? their illnesses?). They're retired so they just centered their lives around grandkids. think most elderly people are like that and can't talk about other things. [/quote]
 
This is hilariously insulting.  Old people only have weather, their illnesses, and grandkids to talk about.

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I’m a 61 year old grandparents, and it’s how I think and I’m not insulted about it.  Once you reach a certain age you realize what’s most important.  [/quote]

I don’t know how you could have no other interest except the grandchildren and not stifle your child I’m trying to picture of mother-in-law who is not interested in anything else other than how I am raising my children and what I am feeding them and where we are going, and what we are doing. I would much rather have a mother-in-law who has a full life and isn’t trying to live vicariously through me, or micromanaging my life. [/quote]

Why does every single thread have to devolve into mother-in-law bashing?  
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