I have always had a great relationship with all three daughters who all live hundreds of miles from me - hence the move. I have a large house, full of the accumulations of 36 years which I have gradually been sorting out. My 2 UK resident daughters have not visited me since last March; it's always easier for me to go to them but now I really could do with some help. DD3 works f/t, has 2 small children and is about to move herself so I understand that it's not on for her to help me. DD1 doesn't work, also has 2 young children both at school. Recently she said they would all come for half term and her DH would amuse the boys while we got on with things. She has now announced that they will arrive late on Friday and on Saturday will go on to Inverness, 2 hours further north, to spend the weekend with his sister, returning on the Monday to me. Bearing in mind my SiL doesn't particularly get on with his sister and BiL , they managed to visit them at the October half term for a week, saw them during the summer holidays at their parents' and also saw them during the Christmas hols and also on a few odd occasions throughout last year. I feel very unhappy, not to mention miffed and my nose is severely out of joint. I thought, not unreasonably, she was going to help me unconditionally. I am getting into quite an emotional state about leaving the home I made with late DH for our family and sorting through all the memories is so difficult especially doing it all alone, dealing with lawyers, agents, surveyors, trying to decide what to get rid of, what to put into storage and what to put in my temporary accommodation and heaven knows what else. I think I have coped quite well since DH died. - perhaps too well - but now things are just getting a bit too much and I need a bit of assistance. Do you think I am being unreasonable in my expectations?
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