My Daughter is Taking My Grandkids Away
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Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 111. Karen, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thanks for taking my call. Long time listener, first time caller.

I am 66. I have three grown children. I live in the home that I raised my three kids in. I am divorced for many, many years. And my three children are grown. They're married. I have 10 grandchildren and they all live close by to me.

Spend, you know, reasonable amounts of time together just through birthday parties or holidays or dance recitals, baseball games, those kinds of events. My youngest daughter, who's 35 and has three children, one, three, and five, her husband is from another state.

And they've been living here for four or five years since COVID. And too much my surprise, she told me a couple weeks ago that they are moving out of state. And

I'm pretty, I was pretty shocked about the move. She had told me that they were, you know, looking here. I knew that I stayed with her kids many, many times while she was looking at homes in the area. So it came to me as a shock. They picked a random town to live in and

And I feel very bad for the children, my grandchildren, that they're taking them away from their family, from our family. She's moving about two and a half, three hours away. And she knows that I'm quite upset about it, but she wants my support. And I said to her, it's hard for me to support you when I think you're making a bad decision.

And I just want to know if I feel that way, how can I support her or can I support her in this decision? Karen, what do you need to say to your daughter is I'm sad that you're going going to miss you, but it's only less than three hours. We can make trips and see each other on holidays, I assume. And I love you. That's how you maintain a relationship. You're continuing to show love.

Dismay, for whatever the reasons are, could hurt your future relationship with those grandchildren and your daughter. So she already knows you're not happy and just say, I'm not happy, but I love you and we'll all see each other when we can. Positive, pleasant. You're living in the same house forever. Not everybody does that. And some people want, especially the younger one, wants her privacy more.

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Exactly. And that's what my concern is. So we do talk every day. No, no, no. I don't need to hear that anymore. Done, done, done. Tell your daughter, I'm sad that it'll be harder to see you guys because of the distance. And I love you. If you could just say that, you will save the relationship. Okay.

So I said a lot of things. I don't care what you said in the past. I don't care. I don't care what you said in the past. I'm going to let you go because yelling over me just doesn't work. I don't care what terrible things you said, especially telling her that she's doing a bad thing.

And they're making a decision for their family. You don't control everybody. I know you have up to this point. You live in the same place. You're divorced from their dad. And they are your universe. They are your community. Well, not everybody wants that amount of togetherness and your oversight. So be gracious or be on the outs. That's it. Yelling over me doesn't change any of it. Think about everything I've said. This has been your universe. And you slipped earlier on. You said, grandparents, family.

98% of this is about you. And I understand that because it's what you're most familiar with and you count on because you're divorced. So be gracious about her so you keep her in your life. My number 1-800-375-2800.

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