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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Your feelings are your feelings, and you don't have to adjust your feelings to suit the needs of others. [/b] Some people are okay with sleepovers (family or otherwise), and some people are not.  They all live.

If you want to adjust, perhaps start with one night, and go from there - just book a hotel in the area.  At five, I was not ready to spend the night anywhere but home - family or not.  By six, I was okay with it.[/quote]

No one is telling OP to "adjust her feelings." Of course they're her feelings. She has shared she is feeling anxious and wants some feedback as to whether she should push through those feelings and allow her daughter to make the visit. What folks are prompting her to do is work through them, not ignore or dismiss them.

I will feel sad when my son graduates high school in a few years. I will miss him when he goes to college. That doesn't mean I should stand in the way of that and keep him home. I'll have to work through those feelings. Same for OP.

(And what adult remembers how they felt about sleeping away from home at age 5 versus 6???) [/quote]

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