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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are going to small town NE with two teens to visit 95 year old grandparents as we do every year.  No it's not skiing in the alps or touring Japan but it's part of being a family.  Baking, gingerbread house, board games, jigsaw puzzles...we stay for three days.  You can do this OP[/quote]

That is sweet but a little different. OP doesn't say her patients are too old to travel. I would be upset by their intransigence if it also cost $$$ and time to get there. When everyone is healthy , reasonable people are willing to alternate locales and be flexible.[/quote]

NP.  I can identify with this.  For us, it's having to go back to our hometowns Every. Time. if we want to see our families over the holidays.  There's no alternating or give and take.  If we want our kids to see their grandparents, we have to go to them.  My 9yo is even catching on to the ridiculousness of it because he sees his friends have extended family come to visit them, and this year asked, "why do meema/papa never come to see us for Christmas?"  And honestly, I don't even know how to answer that.  We don't travel for every holiday anymore but the whole dynamic has left me resentful.[/quote]

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