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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a dumb post.  My family lives within driving distance and we are lucky that there is money, time, and health that we can see DH's family often who live a 3 hr plane ride away.   We recognize many people aren't in the same situation as us.

And if people are giving up stuff they want because of their parents, the problem is with them, not their parents.

Your view of the world and what people are able to do is very skewed.  Your post just makes you sound like an idiot.  [/quote]

have you READ any posts around here? they're filled with raging self-absorbed types (or their adult children complaining about them) who are OUTRAGED their interests and time with grandchildren are not made first priority. [/quote]

So?  If your parents are the raging, self-absorbed type, remind them they can buy a ticket to visit at any time. If they can't afford it, you could buy them a ticket.  If they really want to see their grandkids on a regular basis, they could move to you, but if they already have a community in place, it's probably a bad idea.  So, nicely ignore the raging.[/quote]

Or they can stop the raging—it is fundamentally their problem. The rest of us don't need to put up wiht it.[/quote]

But you can't control other people, only yourself.  So if you have raging self-absorbed parents and you've offered solutions, but all they can do is keep raging, then you just have to ignore them politely.  They are still your parents, and they deserve the respect of being politely ignored. Almost no adult child will move near their parents to placate them, especially if they have a spouse.  The idea is absurd. [/quote]

totally, ignoring them is the right move.

but everything would be so much easier if they would be decent people. [/quote]

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