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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents just got back from a three-week trip to (leaving out details just in case).  Meanwhile, my DH and I are in the weeds - have been for years -- with two young kids, two careers, a few SNs thrown in there with 1-2 of the kids, watching our pennies, etc.  Nothing crazy, but you know, like how a lot of young busy families are around here.  I am so exhausted I just feel like I can not muster up excitement to hear all that my mom will want to chatter on to me about with her trip.   Do I just have to suck it up and do it anyway?  Help?[/quote]

I would rather my adult daughter tell me how she feels, than listen to me "chatter on". Just tell her it's hard to hear about their trip, when you're struggling. That would stop us from sharing, although my feelings would be hurt after everything we've been through raising our dear children.  We share a few funny stories from our trips, but know that our "kids" have more on their minds, and feel too busy and stressed to know how we're doing. We didn't travel without them until they were out of high school. We take them as adults sometimes as well and have great times! We hadn't even been out of the states in our lives, and scrimped and saved so we can travel a few weeks a year now.

My grandparents, parents and inlaws all travelled while we were raising our children and barely making ends meet, etc. I knew they didn't have as much when they were younger and they worked hard. It's different life stages. I especially loved hearing from grandma about going on rides at Disney in her 70's! I'm not going to feel guilty about spending a bit of money and having fun, but also don't need to talk much about it if it is annoying someone. We learnt some of what not to do from our parents as well - no forced slide shows or lectures! And no, I'm not a boomer. I'm a Generation Xer who had children very young. We started with nothing and little help from our parents. It made us grow up very quickly, not like our entitled offspring, sorry to say.  [/quote]

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