Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My in-laws are the same way, and when we visit them, they guilt us to come back more. It’s very frustrating, they are retired, well off but can’t manage to visit.

Retired people seem to have ZERO concern or care for other people's valuable time - and seem to do what they want, when they want to - because are they bitter? Entitled? Maybe both.

Hope I am not so bitter or entitled some day (in the not too distant future).

This - my mom is “too busy” to do so many things and when I see her she goes on and on about how she is soooo busy. She is retired and volunteers at the library 4 hours a week. I work full time managing 4 departments at my company, my spouse works full time, we have 2 kids in elementary who each play a sport. My husband is a Cub Scout den leader and I coach the 3rd grade robotics team. I suppose we should be thankful my parents make time to visit us weekly and eat a homemade meal I prepare on the dishes my husband washes.

This post has me asking myself why I’m breaking my back putting my kids through expensive colleges if the end result is we see each other once a year in the future… I could do a lot with the difference between state schools and their privates.

Anonymous wrote:My mother came once in 20+ years. She didn't even attend my baby shower, which was 90 mins away from her home.

Wut

It’s not normal and my parents are the terrible about it. They live in Baltimore and they’ve come to dc/Bethesda 2x in 6 years and are constantly “where have you been why don’t you come over?”. Now I ask them to come over at that very moment and they always have a dumb excuse. It’s not like they don’t travel - they went to Europe for a month this summer and to the beach multiple times. Drives me crazy and they think I’m joking with them when I tell them.