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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2025-06-20 05:03 pm (UTC)

LW has exactly zero responsibility here, sounds like all her kids are adults or nearly. She doesn't need to tell her mom anything, and she doesn't need to pass messages on to her kids either.

Honestly, her mom should count herself lucky that these are such nice people - they don't ignore her, they've even gone out to visit! But building a relationship takes time, you can't just have an insta-connection. Grandma needs to spend more time asking about their lives at the level she's at, and sharing her own at the same level. It can't just be a barrage of cat texts.

(That being said, there's something for a family text chain where all they do is share cat pics. We've got one of those. Sometimes it's bird pics or dog pics instead.)

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