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[quote=Anonymous]OP, why are you posting this in the Fifty and Over sub-forum? You sound younger, and your issues seem more like family relationship issues. If you're here to ask us older people if we ironed out past grievances with our parents over time, well, okay, you're getting good answers.

I think people have been sympathetic to your difficulties, but I agree with them that it's not your parents' responsibility to take care of your children, and your anger seems misplaced. You brush off your mother giving two months to help you out, saying all your parents care about is pleasing themselves. No wonder she felt you were ungrateful. You do sound ungrateful and extremely entitled. By the time you're pushing 70, it's draining to leave your home routines and go take care of someone's kids, even if they are your beloved grandchildren.

You have a full-time nanny. You have a good husband. You have what sounds like a good mom who helped you out as much as she could in a crisis. That's so much more than a lot of people with sick kids have. Yet two years later, you're still angry because you feel entitled to more. You thought you were entitled to free childcare, paid-for college, plus house payments. Those are not actually things that parents are required to do for their adult children, and most of us make do without those benefits, yet we love and appreciate our parents anyway. I hope you're able to come to terms with your anger and entitlement issues.[/quote]

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