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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think you should go. A lot of this is about her having memories of her mom traveling with her.[/quote]

OP here. Thanks for all the opinions, I appreciate them.

Just as a response to the above, I wanted to add that fortunately we do have those memories, I've traveled with her many times over her childhood. Two Europe trips, one to China, many cross-country trips for travel teams. I hope it's why she actually loves traveling! Just because I don't like it doesn't mean my kids shouldn't like it. (Just like skydiving. I don't care if anyone else does it. It's just something I'm at peace with never doing.)

Part of my travel anxiety stems from having divorced parents who constantly lived in different places and my siblings and I were constantly mixed and matched and sent where the other parent happened to be, at their convenience. I spent a lot of time being placed on flights to places I hadn't seen before, being put on trains, having strangers pick me up. I grew up never really having one home where I could stay at any given time. We were all also sent to boarding schools as soon as we were old enough. (Ironically, boarding school was a place I consequently loved because, like college afterwards, it was one single, consistent place I could be for 4 years except for summers.)

Once I got past the years of being single, changing jobs, the game of musical chairs with roommates and apartments, one of my very specific life goals was to settle in one place. Just like some people yearn to be free to travel, I yearned to be free to be able to just do my thing and stay home.

I literally have zero against India, and understand she just wants to enjoy time with me, but it is just time I would not enjoy, and I highly suspect I might even spoil some of her good memories as it would be obvious I'd be counting the minutes to be able to get out of there and go home again. [b]I know she's trying to blast me out of my comfort zone and thinks it's good for me, but I'm really done all the improving of my character that I'm going to be doing. I just want to gently coast into the finish line.
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Ok sorry for the personal psychological analysis but I hope it makes sense to you guys.

Thanks again.[/quote]

It's certainly your prerogative to feel this way, but I find this mindset to be extremely depressing.  You are 60.  If all goes well, you have 25-30 more years left on this planet and hopefully at least 20 where you feel really good.  And you just want to coast to death and not challenge yourself in any way?

To each her own, but no thanks.
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Look, OP has clearly done a lot of travelling in her time. It's not like she hasn't ever left the country. She knows what she's getting into and she also knows it makes her miserable. Her daughter is not going to change that with a trip to India (of all places.)

My kids wanted me to go to a big, heavy rock concert with them.  No thanks. I have been to concerts before. I don't enjoy that particular kind of music and standing in a loud concert hall surrounded by screaming people isn't going to change me or make me like it better. [/quote]

Ok, but a rock concert is a couple hour event.  Not wanting to travel anymore after the age of 60 is a huge, life altering decision.  Her kids are going to grow up and have their own families and they're not going to want to travel to her all the time.  That's just reality and it will limit her relationships with them.  My own parents refuse to travel and I see them 1x per year and that's it.  They barely know my kids.[/quote]

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