It was my 60th birthday recently and my son in America sent me a card and a balloon and box of chocolates from Moonpig!! He earns a fortune and I spent quite a lot on him and his family at birthdays and Xmas. I was gutted that he’d put zero thought into a gift. Me and hubby went over to stay at Xmas and it was quite challenging as my American DIL is weird with us. Sometimes she speaks and sometimes she doesn’t - she would make herself food and we’d have to get our own. All very strange - I’d say up until now we had a reasonable relationship with her - they’ve been married 7 years and now have 2 lovely kids. I do feel like we’re drifting apart as when we FaceTime we almost have nothing to talk about - which makes me feel very very sad. I feel like he doesn’t really want us in his life anymore and I can’t see us visiting again. Is it me or should I just let the estrangement continue as I don’t know how to get the relationship back on track even though I don’t know where it went wrong?
Hospital visiting: was I unreasonable?