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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I know is that I will hear people say “you’re so lucky you live near your kids’ grandparents,” or “you’re so lucky your adult children can come over for dinners.” It’s not luck. It’s families making it a priority to be in the same location. Nobody can say that it’s as easy to see their family that is 2k miles away as their family in the next town. [/quote]

+1. This. It takes effort and sacrifice. Everyone complains about how lonely and miserable they are but they don't want to make the sacrifices to prioritize family. But they'll read a million self-help articles on how to overcome loneliness by going for walks. Honestly, the way we're moving forward as a society is really sad. Americans are miserable. [/quote]

But some of us recognize that even if our kids lived 30 mins away, we wouldn't see them weekly.  They would have a 40-50 hour job, friends, a SO, and a life with people their age.  So we might still only see them 2 times per month.  We also have a life with our friends.  To us, that is happiness, everyone doing what they love.  DOesn't mean we "love our kids any less".

One kid was actually in town for 4 days recently (lives 1K+ away).  We had other plans, a yearly volunteering event we do for disabled kids--cannot reschedule that and those kids need our help.  So they saw their friends and their sibling over 3 days, and we saw them for 6 hours before they had to fly home.

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