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Originally Posted by markolas
My dad's parents are both in their 80s, and I make it a point to see them every time I visit my hometown (roughly twice a year).
My mother's father passed away 11 years ago. My mother's mother is an abusive drunk whom I have no interest in spending time with, so you'll have to forgive me for not wanting to be around that. Even now that she's in a nursing home with dementia, she manages to sneak booze into her room and get drunk. So, not all of us have hunky-dory memories of our older relatives.   |
This is true. My maternal grandmother is nasty and my paternal is out of it. Neither of them ever show interest in me and how I am, they are very self involved. That is really sad because in your 70s the opposite should be true. I could tell stories that would make you barf or throw things, they were just not good mothers.
I don't mean to disrespect them, they did have their good points too and I do love them. I just have to limit my exposure.