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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a nasty attitude DIL like you so we stay away from the kids. I doubt they even know who we are. The kids get mail gifts 4 times a year from us.

But one day they will come.  And they will ask. And I will tell them why,   :D  [/quote]

Wow lady.  I bet they never ask and are pretty happy they don't have to see you ever.

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+1. You can tell yourself that, but 99.9% chance that they will never come and they will never ask. Kids gravitate towards whoever shows them love -- in whatever way -- whether it's getting down on the floor and playing or just being around them. If their only contact with you is by mail and not in person, you better believe that you're not an important person in their lives and they aren't ever thinking about you. So to hold onto some fantasy about, when they're off in college or they're 22 and on their own -- the first thing they'll want to do is come to me and make up for lost time, you're kidding yourself. They've view you as all kids view old relatives -- I have to be nice to great aunt Gertrude at the family reunion but I could care less whether she's there or not and I'm sure she could care less about me.

And if by some miracle they do come to you, and you use that time to bash their mother -- assuming they love and have a good relationship with their mother -- they ain't ever coming back to you again bc no one wants to hear criticism of their nuclear family from long lost extended family.[/quote]

^^ This x 1000. ??[/quote]

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