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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously, you can get on a plane and be there for any signficant events your family wants you there for and you won't haunt them when they don't want you...[/quote]

I obviously want to see them a lit more often than just significant events.  I want to see them if they need babysitter help at the last minute. Sporting events.  Their baseball games.  Geez. You're sad.[/quote]

I assume this whole thread was started and is mainly populated by trolls to keep discussion going, but I’ll note that I agree with this poster— grandparents live close by and have seen my kids at least once a week, if not more, since birth, and it’s enabled them to have a very close relationship with my kids. They absolutely enrich my kids’ lives AND make a lot of our life possible— they fill in with child care emergencies, they show up to events (major and minor), and they take the kids to their house to give us some space and time to ourselves. They have developed close relationships with my kids which would be much harder (not impossible but definitely harder) if they lived farther away.

I know it doesn’t work out this way for everyone but I am so grateful to my parents and my ILs for how much they form a community for my kids— and how much they help us, as two busy parents! I didn’t realize how much we would rely on them and now I can’t imagine them not being there. I loved my own grandparents but they all lived far away, and our relationship was more distant. My kids are almost as familiar with their grandparents as they are with us and it’s so great! [/quote]

So you’re just in this thread to make people feel shitty with your made-up stories?[/quote]

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