Grandparents visiting
About to enter 2 under 2 and the only places i wanna be other than the office or stores is home. Most times i feel like im pulling teeth to get my son time with my parents because of a number of reasons....
So do yall think your parents should ask initially about visiting or should you ask them?
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I usually wait until they offer but mine regularly do offer so I am very lucky! Ideally though, we should all feel comfortable enough to ask too. I’m sorry your going through this, we all need a village 😢
If my mum just randomly turned up I wouldn’t be phased, my mum coming over means I get to have a pee and catch up with things
I think grandparents these days just don’t show up the way their parents showed up for them. I have this same struggles with grandparents on both sides. My husband and I don’t feel like we have a village at all. We finally just stopped pulling teeth and mourned the loss of the grandparents we don’t have for our son. It took sometime but after 3 years I’ve finally made peace with it. I know I’ll be a great grandma to my son’s children one day so he doesn’t have the same struggles and pain we do with this. Wishing you luck and sending prayers your way mama!
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