Are you close to your grandparents?

[Orsorum]

I have a huge family on my mom's side, but I've stayed in touch with my grandma - she still recognizes me and gives me hugs, even though she's 93 and fading fast. My dad's family is smaller (he's an only child), and his father is 87, and considerably more mentally spry than my mom's mother. However, he and my father aren't particularly close, and unfortunately that carried over to my relationship with both men.

It's not like we're unfriendly, it's more that I've never lived around either man for more than a few weeks since I was 7, and so we're unaccustomed to holding long conversations or really opening up beyond talking about school and future plans.

I dunno. I'm frustrated, but my granddad isn't really the best conversationalist. Perhaps that's just the way it goes.

 

[byronface]

not really.. i only have one living one left (grandfather on dad's side) and it's hard to communicate considering he doesn't speak english very well and the fact that he (and all previous gp's lived in the philippines)

i never had the pleasure to experience "grandma's cookies" or "going to the park with grandpa" hah..

 

[Wallydraigle]

No. One set is dead and I haven't spoken to the other in twenty years.

 

[tfinch2]

I golf with my grandfather about once or twice a month, and see my grandmother the same (mom's side.) I've never met my grandparents from my dad's side of the family due to family feud. My dad's mother did not want him to marry my mother. She's still not over it, so F her.

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

I'm very, very close with my grandma, and was incredibly close with my grandpa, mom's side.

They were better to me than my parents are.

 

[Baked]

All passed away years ago.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: byronface
not really.. i only have one living one left (grandfather on dad's side) and it's hard to communicate considering he doesn't speak english very well and the fact that he (and all previous gp's lived in the philippines)

i never had the pleasure to experience "grandma's cookies" or "going to the park with grandpa" hah..

Heh, neither did I. I realize that that experience is largely fiction, but it doesn't help that most of my friends ARE close to their grandparents.

 

[AreaCode707]

Never knew my dad's dad.

My dad's mom was an AWESOME lady. Fiesty, opinionated, and cool. She'd have easily fit in with the P&N crowd, or the Friday night drinkers (vodka or gin & tonic). I miss her.

My mom's parents were the source of much dysfunction. Her dad's dead now, but her mom is still alive. I get in trouble regularly for not calling enough. They're controlling, guilt-tripping, and out of touch.

 

[Ime]

All my grandparents have passed away. I wish I had been closer to them.

 

[cjgallen]

no

 

[TWills]

--My grandma is 72 and has a brain implant to stop her tremors. She sits in her easychair all day eating candy and watching John Wayne movies (fetish?).

My grandpa just turned 80 and still cuts his own wood to heat the house. He still has a headful of black hair and looks good!

 

[byronface]

Originally posted by: TWills
My grandpa just turned 80 and still cuts his own wood to heat the house. He still has a headful of black hair and looks good!

that's awesome. if healthy old age is genetic, then you = :thumbsup:

 

[HappyPuppy]

My grandparents have been pushing uip daisies longer than most of the zit poppers on OT have been alive. My folks have been long gone along with my brother. Aunts, uncles and cousins are dropping like flys in a cloud of Raid.

Life is good!

 

[Conky]

All my grandparents are dead.

I wish my last grandfather died sooner.. real jerk towards the end. I guess that's nature's way of making it easy to take.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Are you close to your grandparents?

I was, but they all passed away years ago

 

[Blieb]

My grandparents have all passed. I never met my dad's real parents ... they both died when he was young.

I was really close with my mom's father ...

 

[kindest]

im very close to one set.

 

[Lionstl]

All my grandparents are dead.
Never saw grandfathers, both were dead before or soon I was born.
Lived with my grandmother(mother side) for a year or so till she lost a finger in an accident.
She was a sweet to me and very loving. She died when I was 42.
Grandma on my father side was very smart and shrewed lady and not much affectionate towards me.
Lived with her for more than a year when I was in 4th grade. Always complained
about me and my siblings shortcomings. She passed away in 1981 just before I came to USA.
A lot of time has passed since...

 

[dighn]

i lived with my grandparents (from mother's side) until 12. so yeah we were very close. not any more though b/c we moved away and grandma passed away.

grandpanrets from father's side though... haven't really seen much of them really. they are nice but can't say we were every close.

 

[TWills]

Originally posted by: byronface

Originally posted by: TWills
My grandpa just turned 80 and still cuts his own wood to heat the house. He still has a headful of black hair and looks good!

that's awesome. if healthy old age is genetic, then you = :thumbsup:

counterbalanced by my grandma

 

[Bryophyte]

All have died. Grandfathers died when I was little, in 1971 and 1976. Grandmas died more recently, 1988 and 1998.

My birth-parents' parents died before I got to meet them. Last one died just a month or so before I first got in contact with my birth-father, a couple years ago.

 

[bradruth]

All deceased.

 

[nageov3t]

I was really close to my paternal grandfather, but he died when I was in 4th grade. now that I'm older, pretty much everyone in the family says that my personality is exactly the same as his was, though he was more religious than I'll ever be (he was a catholic deacon, and studied theology very intensely).

I'm not really close with my paternal grandmother, though, I guess out of loyalty to my grandfather. when he died, he left her a substantial sum of money that she's done nothing with. that's not what my grandfather would have wanted. he was always very big into funding and participating in missionary trips to third world countries like Haiti.

on my mom's side, my maternal grandmother died before I was born, and my maternal grandfather died a few months after we moved to the east coast, so I never really had a chance to get to know them.

 

[Gurck]

I was very close to my mother's parents, they were wonderful people, unlike their daughters. They're gone now and I really miss them. Not close to my father or his family whatsoever.

 

[TitanDiddly]

They all died before I was born, save for one, and she died when I was an adolescent.