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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL was young and not working when we had our twins but her help had strings attached.[b] Basically if she helped us the our twins, then we owed her to ‘take care of her’ when she got old and was no longer independent![/b] [/quote]

Yeah, that’s kind of how it’s supposed to work. My dad jokes with my kids “I changed your diapers, and someday you can help change my diapers”.[/quote]

Sorry I’m not changing my MIL’s diapers because she came to visit to help with the kids when they were little![/quote]

And here it is - why the older generation isn’t biting.  They know it’s not going to be reciprocated.[/quote]

"The older generation" (Boomers) didn't change their parents diapers either-at least my parents and inlaws didn't.    They DID receive lots of help from their (greatest generation) parents though-again, the ones in my life did.[/quote]

Times change.  Bread was once 0.5¢ a loaf and now it a averages $5.00 a loaf.  Up until the 1950's most women stayed home after they had children.  Grandmothers lived in the same town.  This is not today.  Most women work until retirement age and they don't retire from raising their children as well as working outside the home so they can take ten steps backward to be your free help in whatever you need.  Get used to it because this is life in 2024.)
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