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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Canceling of elders simply did not exist.  Not inviting grandparents for Christmas so we can have our nuclear family celebration was unheard of. Grandparents were considered a valuable part of the family and were welcomed at all holidays.  The grandparents of yesteryears hosted many of the holidays.[/quote]

This is your fantasy and assumption. This was not always true. [/quote]

+1. There was definitely canceling and estrangement. It might not have been admitted. My dad was estranged from his mother other than birthday cards and a few calls a year. She admitted that to nobody and nobody asked him why we never visited her.

Even now, my sister had an explosive fight with a siblings wife and they never invited her over again. At the rare family function with them, they will not engage with her at all. The family would say there are no estrangements. I could go on. My mother will even lecture and judge about such things without admitting her family and dad's is loaded with this and she has been estranged from her own children as her choice at various times.[/quote]

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