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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Relationships built on “usefulness” are not good relationships. Accusing your of using your kids for photographs and nothing more is more telling of your character than theirs. You sound spoiled and immature, unable to provide for your own kids.[/quote]

The grandparents are building their relationship based on usefulness. They only come to take photos to stay a couple of hours a year and pretend they have a good relationship. They weigh each hour they spend on how useful it is to their life. OP feels used which is probably why she's saying they are useless. They are both using each other I suppose because there is no love to take the place. When you love someone relationship aren't this transactional and no one feels used because each person respects the boundaries someone sets and in the space in between they are there to love, not solely to get something out of the interaction. [/quote]

OP called her parents useless because they are not taking care of her kids and giving her money. [/quote]

No I called them useless for being terrible grandparents and not giving a crap about their grandkids. They stay at my house for 3 days, spend less than a hour a day with the grandkids, then leave for a weeklong vacation immediately after.  They have plenty of time for weeklong vacations. Clearly the grandkids are an afterthought and they don’t care about them. [/quote]

Maybe they simply cannot stand being around you.[/quote]

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