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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m posting here as a 36 year old to better understand my (67 year old) mother. She is a retired widow and lives within a 10 minute drive. She worked full time until about five years ago. Despite living this close, she seems to have little interest in her grandchildren. She watches them maybe three times a year for about two hours, when we ask. She buys them gifts for birthdays and Christmas. She always remarks that they are well-behaved and easy, so I don’t think it’s them. I always assume people act in accordance to their truest desires, so does she just not really care to be with her grandkids? I’m not a grandparent yet, so I really can’t gauge how it feels.[/quote] We have one of those. But she spent a long time telling relatives that she wished she could see them more. Until I disabused the relatives of the true situation. She miraculously stopped.[/quote]
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