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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your mom is going to reap what she sows.  She won't get the relationship with your, your sister, or her grandchildren, because you are all too effing busy taking care of your father.  To Pp's who don't seem to get it--sure, mom has no obligation to her ex husband.  She still has obligations to her children, FFS.  Or not, but then don't complain when no one visits her when she's old and boyfriend has bailed.  [/quote]

Maybe the father is reaping what he sowed. When  I am divorced, I won't give my husband a second thought. I tried for years to fix our marital problems (with no interest on his end of doing the same) and have now checked out completely. 
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No one is expecting the mother to care for the father.  What they are expecting is that the mother recognize that her daughter is caring for her terminally ill father, and be at least somewhat sympathic to that fact.  I can't imagine seeing my daughter in that position and not offering sympathy or offering to babysit the kids.  Adding to her burden by demanding fun visits and ignoring what she is going through is unfathomable to me.

I'm curious about the mother's history with her own parents.  I assume they're gone - did she provide any caretaking?[/quote]

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