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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This as usual has gotten derailed.  It's normal family behavior to expect that during a legitimate emergency that family members would try to help. As I mentioned, we make arrangments for childcare and even have a back up--like any grown adult should.  All I was saying is that we had two emergencies that required hospitalizations (complex at that), and because other members of our family couldn't paln child care independently, our only other source to rely on (i.e. family) couldn't be, because our siblings refuse to even entertain hiring childcare.

Did we get through it? yes. Will I move forward? Yes.  I am just raning.  THat is all. the end. [/quote]

It is not normal family behavior to be angry because your parents happened to be out of town when your child was hospitalized.

The first time my kid was hospitalized, my mother was at the beach, the second time she was on bike trip on the Rhine.  In both cases, by the time she got home the crisis has mostly passed.  It didn't occur to me to have a tantrum about how I didn't get her support.  I just realized that the timing was unlucky.  If she had been visiting her other grandchildren it wouldn't have been any different.

Similarly, my son loves my mother, and my mother loves having him with her.  If I accept her offer to watch him so I can go to a wedding out of town, I shouldn't feel guilty because something came up while I was gone.[/quote]

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