We have an estranged angry adult daughter out of state who resents us as we are not paying for her every problem and sending money to support her daughter, our only 16 year old granddaughter. We love our granddaughter and spent 10 years moving from AZ to CA to help our daughter when she needed us. As soon as we arrived there, she could care less and really only wanted our financial support and babysitting and the relationship suffered. She has an x husband who works, boyfriend, owns a nice a home and great job but is constantly making us feel guilty that we said we would help with some support for our grandchild, but now have changed our mind. We are both retired and have a substantial college fund in place which they know we have, however, we are feeling she does not deserve it now. We moved to another area over 2 years ago to distance ourselves and have not seen our grand daughter and daughter in over 2 years as she is not interested in us anymore. We are not playing into the guilt. Each time we reach out to text our granddaughter, we rarely get a response. Maybe a few words in a texts and no interest in coming here to visit. We have sent money, for her good grades in the past and have to beg for a thank you so we stopped sending anything. . She does not call or want to call and is busy we hear. We know nothing about what is happening there and are very saddened. My daughter again asked about the college fund and wants to be sure we are paying for part of it, and I am stalling telling her that we will reevaluate the situation in 2 years. She thinks we are holding the $ as ransom for her behavior and are bad grandparents. What would you do?
Should we discuss with our granddaughter or not? Need some help here.
I've got another 'keen'... Ouch!