My fiancée and I live in Philadelphia, we have been here for 2 years, before that we were in NC for school for 4 years. His parents live in Seattle. He rarely seems them, last time he saw his Dad was Dec 2006 and his mom was May 2007. We are seeing them this Sept (we are going to the family beach house in MA), after that he won’t see them again till our wedding in May 2009. It is not that we don’t want to see them, but we just can’t afford to fly to Seattle, and for some reason, they just won’t visit us. We have suggested on numerous occasions that they come East for a visit seeing as their parents and brothers and sisters all live in either MD, NC or SC. His mom was even in MD from Jan 07-June 07 and never once came up and visited although we went down 3-4 times.
His parents have never been to Philly and we were hoping they would come in early so we could show them around town. Our wedding is on a Sunday. They just made their reservations for the hotel and they are checking in Friday and checking out Monday.
My fiancée is very hurt but hasn’t said anything to them yet. He is planning to but I wanted to see if anyone else finds it out that after not seeing their son for that long and rarely seeing them him in between, they wouldn’t want to stay longer.
He assures me they like me although I can’t tell, so I don’t think that is the reason. They seem happy we are getting married. Anyone have any insight as to why a parent would go so long without making any effort to see their child or to spend more time with them the week they are getting married???
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