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Mil more interested in distant relatives than her own grandchild

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ICantThinkOfAUsernameA · 25/06/2019 09:35

My Mil has her distant relatives (third cousin) daughter staying at her house for 2 weeks. She is spending lots of time with her taking her to town, different activities and restaurants etc. Relative is from another European country (don't want to be to outing with specific locations) and mil sees these relatives atleast every year, sometimes even twice a year. But she is spending alot more time and effort on this girl in 2 weeks than she ever has on my dc in his entire life (he is 18 months old). My DC is her only grandchild. AIBU to be a bit annoyed and puzzled by this? Why would you spend all this effort, time and money on distant relatives, yet hardly ever on your own grandchild.

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QueenofallIsee · 26/06/2019 17:33

Do you think it might be due to them being a link to her home country? Totally different but a friend of mine (3rd generation British Asian) was saying that her grandparents are far more interested is their great nieces and their children than her and hers - she thinks that it is due to her being fully anglicised in how she raised her brood and them embracing the (more tenuous) blood link to their Indian birthplace?

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