I was very promiscuous until I met my DH at 24. I was completely faithful from the moment we met until we divorced 6 years later. I was promiscuous again until I met now-DH a few years ago. It took a family blowup to finally realize why. NO ONE in my family - parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - have ever in my life hugged me or said "I love you." I looked for love everywhere I could. Sad that at 44 I am finally realizing this.

My sister and brother-in-law just had their first baby. They often complained to my husband and I that we let the grandparents intrude too much with our child. THEY wanted to be left alone. Well, now their baby is here, and all they can do is whine about how no one told them it would be this hard! Sister-in-law blogged that she can't believe no one even tried to tell her she would need help with a newborn! I told her every chance I got that she would want someone at the house to help out, to take our Mother-in-law's offer of help, and she just flat out refused that she'd need it! TOLD YOU SO!

when i got pregnant with ds, his father accepted it. he was there for me my entire pregnancy. we were young. HIS father and grandparents, however, wanted me to have an abortion, and when that didn't happen they encouraged him to have nothing to do with his baby. being the coward he is, he does everything they tell him to and dropped off the face of the earth after i gave birth. i honestly believe that if his dad (who raised him as a single dad b/c he didn't want to be a deadbeat dad) and grandparents didn't encourage that, he would've been a great involved father.

My husband is mexican.Like their papa,our children have big brown eyes and beautiful brown skin.Since they are my parents' first grandkids,I assumed they were just indifferent grandparents.They don't pay much attention to them and even forget their birthdays.Now that my sister had her baby,they can't stop gushing over my nephew and are constantly talking about how good it is to have a grandchild who looks like them.

I married my best friend's cousin. I am no longer friends with the girl but happily married for 8 years to her cousin. Shit happens and people change and I moved on a long long time ago without regrets. There is lots of family drama so we do not see any of them much but it is the Grandparents 50th anniversary coming up and so dh's cousin is contacting everyone for a scrapbook she is doing. Instead of emailing me or phoning me (I know she has my email address and my phone number is listed) she had her mom call my mom. We are 30 years old for Fuck sakes!

My mother never told anyone who my father was. About five years ago while visiting my grandparents I was introduced to a man who told me he thought he might be. He is a pretty upright man, who has a family, but as he said, owns up to not having a perfect past. His story sounds legit, and now mom is really sick, and I'd like to get tested to find out ~ maybe I wouldn't be a 23yo orphan if my mother dies.

My husband's parents both passed away before we met and my mom died right after we met. My dad is the only grandparent my son will ever know, but he doesn't seem to care about DS at all. My grandparents were a big part of my childhood and I ache that my son will never know that kind of love.

My grandparents have all passed on and my parents are getting old.......

Look. Just because I don't blab about it on Facebook, doesn't mean that my life is perfect. My ex MIL passed away suddenly this weekend. Her son and I were together for 5 years, married for 1. And my ex DH Facebooked me and told me that I "wasn't welcome at the funeral, because I'm a horrible person" who doesn't understand what he's going through. He doesn't know that both my grandparents, my cousin and my uncle died in the last 3 years, and my dad has terminal cancer. Yep. My life is peachy. I just don't talk about it online. Sorry for wanting to support you and your family.

I love my daughter so much, her uncle is a sociopath and I am so scared that she is to. I don't think she knows how to love anyone. Since she graduated high school she has cut ties with all her friends, moved out and in with her wealthy (by my standards) grandparents and has nothing to do with me or her Dad. Two years of this and I am at my wits end and so scared. Pray for me, pray for her. I just want a relationship with her and her love.