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MILs: how far away could your adult son move?

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CurlyClairey · 29/12/2022 19:36

Right here’s the scenario. You have a married adult son who wants to buy a bigger house with his wife. He’s always lived within a few streets of you. You’re in you late 60s if that matters. You’re fit and healthy, married yourself and have a good circle of friends but you enjoy regularly popping into adult son’s house throughout the week. How far away could your son move from you before you kick up a fuss about it?? MIL thinks us moving 20 minutes drive away is the end of the world and is NOT happy. Weve offered to continue visiting but she’s saying we’re “moving away”. I can’t see why she can’t just drive the 20 minutes to pop round when she wants to anyway??? What does everyone else think?

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Lost123454 · 30/12/2022 06:59

She sounds very controlling

I would move as far away as possible as she will get worse with age

4KingsDancing · 30/12/2022 07:02

Well DH's parents live in Australia. we haven]t seen them since before Covid and they sre alot older than mid 60s and don't kick up a fuss about it!

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