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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't understand what was wrong with the email. Is there more to the story, OP?[/quote]

This.  How is it too little too late when the kids are just in middle school?!

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Well, what took them so long?

I don't do fair weather friends, and I don't do people who could have played an important role in my children's life since day one, but who didn't, and suddenly want ME to make a huge effort years later. You had your chance from day one. Where were you then?[/quote]

Are you the OP, or another insane person? There is nothing wrong with MIL. She had her reasons for not being there before, and now she wants to be more present (supposedly). Who cares? It doesn't give OP more work, nor her children. She can come, or not, it won't really change their lives.
It's astonishing the number of judgemental people who want to apply strict standards to others but would go off the deep end if they were applied to them :-)[/quote]
Um, no. If I had been absent in someone's life and then showed sudden onterest, I wouldn't be surprised if they WEREN'T interested. Why should they be?[/quote]

Again, are you OP?

Are you telling us MIL never showed interest? Has she never brought them presents, for their birthdays or other occasions? Have you never sat down to dinner all together? Has she never visited? Never talked to the your children? If she has done these things, she has shown interest. Being present for their musical performances is just another way of showing interest (and I don't blame her for not coming to the earlier ones, unless your children are particularly gifted and perform in something other than the usual school things).

You are either a troll or particularly hateful. Some of us had grandparents who never showed up to anything, and if they had suddenly wanted to to, we would have said yes, of course. [/quote]

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