Hurt by my mothers indifference.

[3boysgirlontheway]

We live thousands of miles away from our families, with time differences and small children its hard to chat very much but, I do my best to text every day. My mother hardly ever replies. I send her photos of the kids and she never even comments on them. It hurts, but, should it? Should I expect replies? Should I expect her to say they look cute? I have a beautiful 15 month old girl and her grandmother has never even said that she looks pretty, or sweet or anything. We moved here when DD was 9 months old and will be going home again in 2 years.

Thanks everyone. I am sorry that some of you are going through the same stuff, it does hurt regardless.

Kiwiinkits it was never every day, it might be 3 a week some weeks, or maybe one other weeks. She does have an iphone, it's my brothers old one, he set it up for her. She does text a lot to her friends and family at home, she loves to text. She never liked talking on the phone. She communicated a death in the family to me by text. It's not even not acknowledging the photos or whatever, it's never even just a random "how are you" text you know, I am thousands of miles from home with very young children, the odd bit of interest from my mother would go a long way.

MumnGran you make a lot of sense, that seems like what is happening. Sorry you went through it as well.

Sorry to everyone else who has been hurt in this way, I know I will never do this to my children, wherever they go in the world.

Just to update we are coming up on a week now with no contact, the last 3 text's I sent (before I started this thread) were unanswered. I am not going to text her again, well I will of course, but not about the kids.