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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the people who are thinking visiting 3x a year is too much. How do you feel about only seeing your children a few times a year when they are grown? [/quote]

This very much depends on the details. Unless the grandparents are too old or ill to travel (which is not mentioned here) there needs to be give and take when there is distance involved. Also these visits are for up to a week at a time. Expecting grown children to spend three weeks per year + visiting you (and taking time off work) is unrealistic for most. Surely the grandparents also have the option of traveling to visit their grown children (and will usually have more scheduling flexibility to do so). There is also the option of meeting up somewhere that the grown children would actually like to vacation- rather than expecting them to just visit your home each time.

I don’t know what other visits happen throughout the year as OP doesn’t say.

We live across the country from my parents and see them about 4 times/year. We travel to them 1-2x per year, depending, and for the other visits they come to us, or we meet elsewhere. I am not able or willing to travel to them 3x+ per year. It would take up most of my vacation time for the year, and leave no time to do any other vacations or trips.

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