Family aren’t living locally

Most of my brood are 72 miles away, (except for youngest 2) and one not so far,but still an hour & a half.I see them when i can.& ring up.Many families are further away these days.I sympathise,but you have to try to make the most of it.It was very difficult for us all last year,when i was ill.But it is what it is,and they came to visit as much as they could.I am very grateful i am still around to see them when i can.

My daughter and GC live a hour and 15 mins away by car, as I’m retired I can drive down in the week if child care is needed but on average we all see each other fortnightly and the main reason for that the GC stays at their fathers every other weekend…..

We all live in same town. But we are all busy: jobs and life. No weekly visits as my parents would have expected. I go to fitness classes/ U3A and keep myself busy.

We moved 250 miles from our adult children and grandchild. I do miss the popping in but when they/we visit, fairly frequently, it’s lovely, like a holiday.

We are making the move very soon to be near my eldest daughter and her family the youngest being 2
It was a big decision but have no other family other than a sister in law 120 miles away. Just hoping it all works out. The 5/6 hr journey was becoming awful and we could my just visit a couple times in the year.

i live alone and my son, d in law and grandson live about 2.5 hrs away so i can’t just go up for a short visit. i do go up regularly but i stay overnight so that i can have my grandson for the day. decided i’m going to move to be much closer to them. but that doesn’t mean that i will ever just pop in. there’ll always be a prior arrangement. but i want to be around to do the small things school pick ups etc and to be on hand for last minute things. so for me it’ll work if i live much nearer.

i’m sure you won’t regret moving to be close. i don’t have any family near where i live and for me family is extremely important

You’re not being selfish at all, you’re just missing that close connection, which is very natural, when emotions dip a bit I try to rebalance, drift boss can be a simple way to ease the mind.