How often do you see family

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As it can be difficult with older children who have left home have their own full time jobs and own agenda's, so its the way it is.

I see my daughter 2,3 times a week.

My son lives abroad so I see him once a year and we video call each other every weekend.

Its a case of it is what it is so we just adapt to that.

We have one son in Scotland an 11 hour drive from us a son in Vancouver one daughter in Derbyshire one about 30 mins away my parents and sister in Newcastle upon Tyne . We try to see them all but it is difficult at times.

Family live close by so see them several times a week - I feel very fortunate especially as we all get on well. I try hard not to take it for granted that they’ll always be there…..think they will though, fingers and toes crossed.

Not as often as we or they would like. One child lives abroad the others miles away. School fines stopped them from taking children on out-of-term time hols with us. We do have GC to stay when requested.

My daughter lives 5 minutes away ( by car) and my son @ 20 minutes but apart from when they need dog or child sitting we rarely see any of them. People I know seem to be meeting up with their families all the time. I know DH and I have avoided people throughout the pandemic but it was like this even before covid.

When we first came to Australia in the early 1970s a cousin came to Perth. We live in Melbourne. It really struck me as funny that family members in the UK thought we might meet for coffee! Ha- it’s only 3, 450 kms away, a straight 36 hour drive non stop or a 4.5 hour flight away. No clue. Needless to say we never did meet up again for coffee or anything else !

I see 1 daughter and her 2 children once a month, they live an hour away. I don't see my other daughter, 15 minutes away, as we're virtually estranged. I see all 5 of my grandchildren about monthly.

i see my son and family every 2/3 weeks but my dil checks in with me most days on facebook since i have been ill over the last 3/4 years, my mum at the other side of the city not seen for a year and my dad i only see once a year as it is a 5 hour train journey to get there, not seen him since 2019 so looking forward to my visit in november. my phone is always ringing and my two grandsons facetime me usually when corrie or emmerdale is on.

Because my lovely Mum gave me such grief over giving her regular visits with the children, I vowed I would never inflict such demands/requests/hopes on my family. It is difficult but I have honoured this pledge to myself. I admit to being disappointed how seldom I see them all. Yes, indeed they are busy people but I've always believed we somehow find a way to do those things we really want to do. I certainly never want to be regarded as a duty. Happily, they are a fun, contented and thoroughly sporty foursome and I'm regularly indulged in action packed photographs of them. It could be much worse.

We have one DD with DGS who lives about 1 mile away, and a DD with DGD 4 miles away, we generally see them at least once a fortnight. My sisters one living in Surrey, the other in SW Scotland, I live in the middle. I've seen twice this year and will be seeing in the next two weeks

My family are a ‘close’ Family, as in love being in/out together.
My Partner was never worried about seeing his children (grown up) until his eldest had children - which I understand.
We are 35/40 mins away from his 2 DS.
We are about 40mins from my eldest Dd and 3 DG.
We are 3hours plus away from my younger DDA and DG.
We are an hour plus away from my elderly Parents.
We are retiring 2024 and looking at new build property now - all at least 40mins from where we are now and all further away from my Family…
Some areas are closer to his DC - I can see me staying with my younger Dd more often as she has children with Additional needs - and DP is already worried about this as he doesn’t want to help them out as much as I do.
Lots of rows to look forward to - I can see us breaking up over this and I’m in my early 60’s ☹️

Our eldest daughter with three grandchildren, lives over 200 miles away. When the eldest was little, we used to Skype, before FaceTime, and make sure we visited monthly. Either they would come to us or we would go down to them.
Just before COVID, she decided she wanted to live closer and moved into rented accommodation near us. The children, 3 of them by now, went to local schools, we did the whole grandparents thing, babysitting, school pick-ups and drop-offs. The youngest was then in nursery, I won’t lie it was hard work, my daughter still had work down south, so we were left for days living with the children and acting as loco-parents.
Her partner decided he didn’t want to move, so stayed put!
At the start of the lockdown, she decided to move back down south. It’s hard now, because our younger daughter is living with us, temporary, so we don’t have the room anymore.
It’s hard going to the next town , where they were living temporary, looking at the school etc, imagining what might have been. We don’t see them has much. They are working I know, but it still hurts, that we are not involved with them as we were.
I would love to see them more, but it is what it is.

My children are scattered around Scotland and in Barbados so it is rare that I see a lot of them as they are busy people with their own lives and careers. I don't have grandchildren but I have plenty of friends who do and moan about seeing too much of them or not enough of them. I think it depends on the circumstances and the type of family that you are.

My daughter and family live 5 mins away and as the children go to the school where I work I see them every day. My son and his wife have split up. We see our son around once a fortnight and our grandchildren who live with mum whenever they decide to call, which is usually around once a month. We always phone and text at lease once a week. My sister and her partner live around 3 hours away and we see them around 4 times a year.

I live about 30 mins from grandchildren and we help out. Their Dad our son Lives 2 hours away so we try to fill in for him , but unless we go to him we hardly see him, it is what it is and I put it in a compartment so as I dint get upset at his lack of visits

I was four hours away from my daughter and now I have moved she is only ten minutes away. My adult grandchildren are also nearby.

Best thing I ever did.

Whenever visits are convenient.

There is no pattern. DS and familylive 200 miles away, some times we may see them for a weekend every month for three or four months, at other times a week very holiday. It varies depending on school holidays, work commitments, birthdays, Christmas, Easter. In fact the pattern of visiting is impossible to forecast.

What are you thinking lilacrose?
How often are you seeing your 3hr a way family?

I see one family a lot, several times a week but the others from time to time when we mutually have time. We have a large extended family and it somehow falls to me to arrange a lot of the meetings, even between sisters when we don’t always go ourselves. Must be my allocated place in life I suppose! Possibly if I waited for them I wouldn’t see much of some of them and they wouldn’t see each other, I don’t know.

Both my sons live in London or close to it, and I live in NW England. One son is single and visits quite often, every six weeks or so. The other has a wife and children and I’d say we see each other about three times a year. Sometimes he comes on his own for a few hours, there and back in a day by train.

I no longer visit them, as I can’t cope with the journey. We all talk on the phone a lot. To me this seems a normal amount of contact. We’ve never been the sort of family who all live in the same area.

We have 3 daughters. DD1 lives 15 miles away. We don’t have regular times to visit but see her and SIL about once every couple of weeks. We see our 19 year old DGS about once a month.

DD 2 lives 8 miles away and agin we see her about every couple of weeks.

DD 3 lives around the corner from DD2 and has two young boys. We see them frequently as the older one is at school around the corner from us and we look after the little one for a couple of hours , two days a week in term time.
Sometimes there will be a surprise visit from one or the other. We all use the family Wattsapp frequently. They all keep in touch and go out with each other and we often spend a holiday all together.
We are very lucky.