"I'm mom to an 18-year-old son, Jackson, who may be non-speaking but, like many teens, never fails to let me know exactly what's on his mind. I'm also a college professor, teaching digital journalism at Florida A&M University, where my "babies" know they can come to my office for a joke, advice, a good cry, or just some candy for an afternoon sugar rush."
"My husband and I have three young kids (6, 4, and 2 years old). We live about a 14-hour drive from my family, and a one-hour drive from his. We see his parents about twice a month, and mine once or twice a year. Obviously, traveling to see my parents is much harder than visiting his. Last summer, we didn't take our usual week-long trip to see my family, and instead, they planned a trip to a theme park (a six-hour drive from us),"
A parent of three young children lives about a 14-hour drive from her family and one hour from her husband's family, creating unequal travel burdens. The couple typically sees his parents frequently and her parents rarely. A recent decision replaced the usual week-long visit to her family with meeting them at a nearer theme park for a short weekend. The husband drove the family and later expressed anger about the effort and a perceived lack of gratitude. No explicit agreement had been made about visit frequency, leaving expectations unclear and causing surprise and resentment.
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