How often do you visit your grandparents?

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My grandparents are in their late 70s and I feel guilty I don’t visit them enough. They live half an hour anyway and it’s usually impossible to find time Monday-Friday. I try and pop once a week at the weekend but finding that harder amongst other things, my Oh works weekends and I struggle to get or with both kids on my own. DS has additional needs. Both DC together in the car is often a pain as they wind each other up.

They certainly aren’t lonely. My mother lives 1 minute up the road from them and my uncles live close by.

I just feel guilty if I don’t see them at least once a week. They have done a lot for
Me over the years. Often spent more time with them than my Mum!! But life is just bloody draining.

I planned to pop in today but OH is working. I have a banging headache and I can tell DS would make that worse if we went out. He struggles with his behaviour whilst out and about!! Plus DD wet the bed so I have bedding to wash and put back on!!

Very similar here, they are 1.5 hrs away with mum and dad about 10 minutes from them, uncle and aunt 2/3 of the way to them, sisters half way. I see them about every 2-3 weeks at family weekend get-togethers.

Mine live 4 hours away and I only see them about once a year which is really bad but we have an old car so I don’t like driving it that far too often. Mine are almost a hundred so won’t be around much longer so I must make more of an effort.

Not enough unfortunately. I only have 1 grandparent still alive and he emigrated back to South Africa 5 years ago. I have been out to see him 4 times since he emigrated and going out again in April to take my LB (who will be 7 months old) to meet him.

I miss having him close by as before he moved I would see him about once a week

3 times a year for paternal grandparents they're 3 hours and a ferry away but I call every week at least once and we stay with them for a few days each visit dgf is technicly step though as not married to dgm but he's never been treated as anything but the real thing

Maternal dgm lives around the corner I visit once every other month but am always on call she smokes heavily and won't leave the flat so I can't stay long as im asthmatic as is dd1, she never bothered with us when younger not moved near in the last few years but she is very obvious who her favourites are