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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it feel to know that one day you, too, will be reviled for just wanting to spend time with your adult children and get to know your grandchildren? If that's not your "plan", then please tell me how you intend to avoid being avoided and gossiped about by your own children and their spouses?[/quote]

I plan on being welcoming to them in my home and not being crass and rude around them.
I plan on being thankful for their interest in our lives instead of forever complaining that they're not doing enough.
I plan on showing interest in the grandchildren beyond an occasional "like" of a facebook picture.
I plan on listening when they talk, and not constantly do things they say they don't like.
I plan on respecting them as people enough to respect their home, and rules, and family.

When I speak negatively about my MIL, it's because she does not treat DH or me the way that adults treat each other. It goes beyond "she's kind of annoying" and has approached the territory of "she's an absolute lunatic who is doing nothing to maintain a relationship". So I'm over it. And I think she's a bitch. And if it didn't matter to my husband I would have absolutely no contact with her.[/quote]

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