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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you are not going to get any compassion or support for this issue on this board.  I have tried.  You are going to get a bunch of people telling you--sometimes in very nasty terms--that you should raise your own kids and are a terrible person if you think that grandparents should, you know, take any sort of interest in your kids rather than talking incessantly about their social activities and pickleball games.

I have no advice.  We have distanced ourselves from our families because they just do not care about us or our kids.  [/quote]

+2.  All of this.

It's particularly hard to swallow in our case as our parents had SIGNIFICANT help in raising us: pick ups, babysitting, taking us for weeks at a time and for vacations etc.

I had a mastectomy a couple of years back and not one of them came to visit or help. Not even my own mother, who is a retired nurse. 
Eff them.[/quote]

+3. Same (but other surgery, not mastectomy). I hope you're well, PP. It really hurts that my parents take so little interest in our lives and my kids' lives, but that's the way it is. No in-laws to pick up their slack either. [/quote]

+4 I had a miscarriage, but didn't want to tell a lot of people (including my mom) and she wouldn't shut up about wanting grandkids, so I finally told her I had a miscarriage and was struggling to get pregnant and she made it all about her and kept going on about how sad she was because she wanted grandkids so bad. Flash forward a decade or so and she take almost zero interest in my DC. I just don't get it.
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