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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I am not unsympathetic to my mom.  I too would like it if she could easily attend the preschool Christmas pagent or pop over for dinner on a weeknight.  This is how it was for her/her mother.  Sounds like heaven to me.  I guess that's why it bothers me - because part of me wants what she wants too and it just makes me feel like crap when she makes a comment.  In Richmond in particular, its more common for adult children to move back - and less common for them to move away.  So most of her friends have their kids/grandkids around.

Sometimes I wonder if we are placing too much importance on DH's salary/growth potential and not enough emphasis on family?[/quote]

My hometown is a 5 hour drive and economically depressed so its not the same as you , with regards to even having potential to move back, but the rest of this post I COMPLETELY understand and wish you luck OP.

I wish my mom lived here. She also makes comments that she feels bad that I have no family to help. But its not a veiled barb, its just that when you have that kind of good help from your own mom I know it seems to her like it must be so much harder for me, she doesn't get that its just not that big a deal most of the time because she always had the option of a quick break with little notice, so she doesn't quite get it.[/quote]

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