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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it OP.  Our kids are older now.  I had to watch MIL bragging about keeping her daughters (plural) kids for one - two weeks while the daughters went on overseas anniversary trips, or whatever.  MIL would never do it for us. It was pretty crappy.

It is what it is.  We enjoyed our vacations with the kids, and would have just missed them and talked about them, anyway. MIL had help and should have been grateful, but she is kind of bitter, and I refuse to be that way. So, I will hopefully get to help my children when they have families. I consider it a privilege, and they won't be expected to kiss my feet about anything (unlike MIL, who thinks the world owes her something - for what, I have no idea). [/quote]

My mom will keep two sets of her boyfriends kids for a week or two and fly out and on the rare occasion we have an emergency and need help, she will not even watch mine for an hour.  And, she then wonders why, now that they are older they don't care if they see or talk to her and when they do its only because I force them.

My MIL had early onset dementia so she couldn't help (and we took care of her).

It really sucks not to have family you can count on even for a few hours.  But, it is what it is.  I would never leave my kids and go on vacation alone.  We consider vacations as family time.[/quote]

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