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<blockquote data-quote="barneysmom" data-source="post: 570241" data-attributes="member: 1872"><p>ksm that sounds like such a heartbreak for you and your granddaughter to have to lost the special relationship you had. It is a huge loss for both of you, and you will both be grieving hard, even as you both try to find out who you are in this new relationship.</p><p></p><p>Maybe could you grieve this together, and then set up kind of a "hybrid" relationship together? Where there is still space for you to be grandma. Maybe leave out the word "parent" for awhile. I am wondering if there is a place where the "grandma" part can still survive.</p><p></p><p>maybe it would help you and dgd to talk about it together. I don't know, I have no experience with this but it sounds just too painful for her to lose her adored grandma, and you to lose being her adored grandma. </p><p></p><p>I wonder if there are support groups on the Internet for this where people have specific advice on parenting grandchildren, since there are many grandparents who have taken on this job, and you wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barneysmom, post: 570241, member: 1872"] ksm that sounds like such a heartbreak for you and your granddaughter to have to lost the special relationship you had. It is a huge loss for both of you, and you will both be grieving hard, even as you both try to find out who you are in this new relationship. Maybe could you grieve this together, and then set up kind of a "hybrid" relationship together? Where there is still space for you to be grandma. Maybe leave out the word "parent" for awhile. I am wondering if there is a place where the "grandma" part can still survive. maybe it would help you and dgd to talk about it together. I don't know, I have no experience with this but it sounds just too painful for her to lose her adored grandma, and you to lose being her adored grandma. I wonder if there are support groups on the Internet for this where people have specific advice on parenting grandchildren, since there are many grandparents who have taken on this job, and you wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel. [/QUOTE]
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