Comment by PophamSP on 29/11/2024 at 00:32 UTC

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View submission: How often to visit elderly grandparents?

You are not a bad person for wanting boundaries. I have been in your shoes and am now elderly myself. This may be an unpopular opinion but being elderly does not give you the right to guilt-trip your kids or grandchildren for visits and attention. Whether it is intentional or not, it is manipulative behavior.

The forums on agingcare.com[1] discuss this quite frequently. I suggest you start spacing out your visits and make it clear that you have other obligations. They are adults, they have each other and it sounds as if they are well cared for. It is not your sole responsibility to keep them from being lonely.

1: http://agingcare.com

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