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[quote=Anonymous]My parents, more specifically my mom, are the same. They don’t say offensive things, but have a way of just being too physically close, needing to be in every conversation, and generally making it really awkward and difficult for my husband and I to make friends with our kids’ friends’ parents. Of course they are retired and local and I am their only child - these are their only grandchildren. My mom was hurt when she wasn’t invited to my bachelorette party - it was lunch at a winery with my 3 best friends. When they still lived in the place where I grew up, I would invite friends over to visit when I was in town and she would sit down and join us the whole time, not just pop in and catch up briefly and then go about her business. Growing up my parents never missed a single sporting event, school event and chaperoned every trip. It is suffocating.

I invite them to about 1/2 of the kids’ events. I also let them do some events on their own - like chaperoning preschool parties and field trips during my work day. My kids are young enough that they love having them there and it gets them involved without interfering with me making adult friends. Our youngest still naps, so another tactic for now is that sometimes they stay home with him while we go to the older kid’s soccer games.

I can’t say anything to them because they aren’t doing anything wrong except bugging me in the same way they have bugged me since I was a teenager. They mean well and they love my kids, so I just try to balance things without hurting anyone. [/quote]

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