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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entitlement here is unbelievable.  The step children are NOT your parents grandchildren.  They have no obligation at all to subsidize your blended family by including your step children in their vacation plans with their grandchildren/your children.  Your attempt to blackmail them into doing so is selfish and dysfunctional.  [/quote]

Agree. OP does not realize that these children are NOT her children. While she may have helped raise them she is not one of their parents. Her parents are not their grandparents.

If OP and her DH divorce, she has zero legal rights to ever see these kids again. Zero. Same for her parents. This frequently happens as the divorce rates for second marriages is about 70%.  I can understand her parents' reluctance to expend emotion, attention and resources on these children. I have known many heartbroken people who treated stepkids "like their own" for years only to have them yanked away permanently when the parents' marriage fails.

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Agree with this. My step-DIL has never once included me in their X'mas family cards or mentioned me in any of her "We visited DH's home state and met so-and-so" Facebook posts and yet has no qualms messaging me to buy LulaRoe leggings for her 'small business'. I know I am in a different situation from OP's parents as I am the second wife but still...[/quote]

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