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[quote=Anonymous]New poster here. My step-mom is much like your 'faux MIL'. She has very specific time limits and very much limits her interactions with all children, not just my dad's grandkids. Unlike you, I know why: children (including her own) just exhaust and stress her. In our case, she truly loves all the kids, but just can't be around them very much w/o falling apart. So, my dad visits solo. We visit and stay elsewhere. We invite them to our home/hotel so they can leave whenever they want. And if there's an all day activity (say, a pool day), grandparents come separately so she can leave when it's good for her. I don't think she's crazy. I love my stepmom, and while she won't be a grandmother to my young children, I feel that once my kids are college-age, she will be. So I stopped making her into a GM and we all spend time with her that works for her. [/quote]
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