Pil are in their 80s, and have suddenly gone very downhill. Fil can no longer drive, and they are finding it increasingly difficult to manage.
Dh is going to see them twice and week and cooking them a meal (round trip 50 miles - plus he has a long commute and a very long day).
Dh has two brothers who live nearer and both work from home, but they have abdicated all responsibility and say they're too busy to get involved.
The real trouble is that the pil aren't really very nice. It's a real case of "as ye sew so shall ye reap" in that they have never helped their children, shown little interest in the grandchildren (I don't think they'd even recognise dd) and have been thoroughly self-absorbed.
I know morally we should supply more help, but I just can't help grinding my teeth and thinking that they don't deserve dh's efforts.
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to feel unhappy about increasingly responsibility for aged pil?
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gramercy · 08/07/2010 12:00
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