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[quote=Anonymous]If visiting your parents is so stressful why are you going? I am incredibly stressed as well and understand with a full time job, father in law just passed away after cancer and hospice, teens and a mother in assisted living with dementia. What is getting me through it is I have started to lie. When relatives call and ask me something about my mother like she wants to go somewhere or she isn’t answering her phone so I should drop everything to make sure her phone is charged, etc. I now say I have a work meeting then I have to take my kids somewhere. You need to lie and say you have a work meeting or project and can’t go visit your parents. Or your kids have something important. Or your spouse can’t make it and something is up with him. Whatever it takes. I used to try to explain how busy I was but no one really listened. Now I just lie and say nope can’t do it. [/quote]
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