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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe all the PPs defending MIL. The declarations of love are fine, but the second she asked the DD to reciprocate, she crossed a line. What if the answer had been "No, I don't think about you every day, Grandma?"  Would the DD have felt comfortable saying that, or guilty?  I think OP handled the situation correctly and is right to be concerned. No one should act needy towards a child. [/quote]

Oh, please.  Let it go.
Concerned?  Really?
She crossed no “line.”  It was a conversation between DD and MIL. 
Seven-year-olds are quite honest in their responses.  [/quote]

09:45 here again. I HAD a grandmother like this. She lived halfway across the country and I hardly ever saw her. Whenever she would visit, she would want to snuggle us and say stuff like that and have us say it back, but to us, she was essentially a stranger. I didn't want her to cuddle me and I certainly didn't think about her daily, but that didn't mean I didn't love her. Still, she made us feel so guilty if we didn't reciprocate her once a year lovefest. It was all about her. [/quote]  And maybe that is what she needed. Maybe she grew up during the great depression, or the Holocaust, or WWII and didn't have that in her life.  Maybe her mother was thrown into an insane asylum when she was 3 and she needed that affection and attention as a young child so she gives it to the grand babies. When we start to try to understand one another we will be much happier and stop making non-issues into something that nothing to be concerned about. There are bigger issues in the world that we could be investing our energy into. [/quote]

But she was an adult, looking for reassurance from a child. How is that not inappropriate?[/quote]  Let it go. [/quote]

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