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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you inviting her and she’s refusing?  More importantly do your kids invite them and she’s refuses? Do you really want more than birthdays and holidays?

I mean if all the kids know is that they any see granny on birthdays and Christmas and you have dragged them into your drama, I don’t get what’s so bad. That’s all that many kids see their grandparents. [/quote]
Honestly, I don’t mind hosting or visiting when things are “normal”, but they are never normal after she goes off the grid, and I’m tired of her disappearing until she feels the loneliness of holidays without family. You can’t abandon us all year in between birthdays and holidays. Am I crazy to think this isn’t normal? Is it typical for parents/grandparents to cut off all contact between holidays after creating drama or not getting their way?

—OP[/quote]
Honestly, the only time I engage in conversations with my mother-in-law is around holiday gatherings. She does call for birthday wishes (and we call as well). And there is no fight or dislike. We just are not close. I can easily go months between holidays/birthdays with no interaction between us.
Instead of looking at it like no contact or some sort of fight, just look at it as low contact because you aren’t very close.[/quote]

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