We had been very much looking forward to a visit from our 29 year-old daughter, our only child, who we hadn’t seen since last August because of COVID. She lives in London, has just bought a flat with her partner, and has a good job, albeit an awfully long commute, and we live 5 hours drive away. She went to a school friend’s (postponed) wedding locally, and stayed down for the week, which was lovely. BUT we, DH and me, were quite taken aback about how chippy she has become, giving us very short shrift if we come up with a comment which she perceives as not “woke” or pc, to the extent we were almost afraid to open our mouths for fear of getting our heads bitten off, and we felt we had to be careful what we said. We have always had a rather jokey way of talking in the family, but now she seems very ready to take offence. Any remark about her partner or his family, whom we have met and like, seems to be taken the wrong way. And when we said, as we were waving her goodbye, that she looked as though she had had a good rest, (which we thought she had), she jumped down our throats, saying she wasn’t stressed. Even DH noticed it, and he is the most easy-going of men. We are rather upset, not least as they have had a lot of help from us over their flat purchase, and can’t really understand it. Have any other Gransnetters had similar experiences?
