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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When we got married my MIL had all these lovely platitudes about how it was her son’s responsibility to send cards and call and gifts and all that jazz. She waxed on about how she once took her kids to visit her own long distance ILs without FIL and it was such a horrific hassle to fly so far with two small children that she didn’t do it again for 8 years.

Guess who called crying the first time she didn’t get a Mother’s Day card? And berated me via multiple media for not flying with out small children to see them during the first Covid summer?

So apparently she’s not happy with the son she raised and actually does think I should be the one doing all these things despite the fact that she herself refused to do them. [b]My husband tells me they visited their long distance grandparents exactly 3 times in 18 years.[/b] [/quote]

Which I hope he sees as his father's failure to maintain ties to his family.[/quote]

Indeed he does and he is utterly baffled by her insistence we should routinely travel across country with infants, then toddlers, and now young school aged children when his own experience was that they don’t do that in his family because flying cross country with toddlers is no one’s idea of a good time.[/quote]

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