Family Rants on Sidechat | I absolutely love my Grandma, but she’s been making really weird comments about my friends and how far they live from me. She asked me what girls I still talk to and I named a few. She asked where one lives and I said about 35 minutes. Pt 1

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Family Rants 2w

I absolutely love my Grandma, but she’s been making really weird comments about my friends and how far they live from me. She asked me what girls I still talk to and I named a few. She asked where one lives and I said about 35 minutes. Pt 1

Anonymous 2w

Which really isn’t that bad. And in response she went “well you need friends closer” and started acting like I shouldn’t be friends with her cause she doesn’t live within 10 minutes from me. She’s never even met this friend and is acting like she’s horrible for living far. I don’t understand why she thinks she has a right to tell me who I can and can’t be friends with all because she thinks she lives too far. I honestly don’t think 35 minutes is that bad.

Anonymous 2w

yeah, girl, with all due respect, you should never listen to your grandparents. Theyre too old school to understand literally anything. my closest friend from home moved and lives two hours away from me. i moved and my friends are 30 minutes away from me. distance is not the issue unless your friends aren’t making th effort to come see you as well which clearly isn’t an issue with you. i stopped listening to my grandpa a long time ago bc he would give his two cents on how we were spoiled as a ki

Anonymous 2w

Some of my friends live out of state and she’s mad about that too. I still talk to all of these people but I guess them responding to me when I text or call doesn’t count as a friend to her.

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Anonymous 2w

Change the subject. She doesn’t understand and you can be friends with people near and far she doesn’t get it. Talk about other things and connect with her. Ask her about her friendships. Get her talking and you’ll connect.

Anonymous

OP 2w

u don’t have to listen to her that’s it my grandma is countries away and i wouldn’t not talk to her cuz of that just ignore her if it’s been fine up till now then just don’t talk to her about its and it’s not like it’s gonna hurt her

Anonymous

#1 2w

Yeah I did try and make that very clear to her that I’m always going to be friends with her no matter what and hang out as often as we can. I think my grandma forgets we both have jobs and can’t hang out all the time. And when we do hang out we switch off driving. One day she’ll drive and the next time we hang out I’ll drive that way it’s not always one person driving all the time. I think my grandma just likes to ignore what I say so she can always feel like she’s right.

Anonymous

#2 2w

kid meanwhile my family out in california had every apple device possible. so dontttt listen to her. just tell her you’ll take it into consideration until they prove they’re not loyal

Anonymous

#2 2w

Yeah I’ve decided to I’ll just ignore her until she learns I’m allowed to be friends with whoever I want. She literally went to Michigan to see her friends about a month ago, but I guess driving 30 minutes is a crime to her. The girl I told her about is one of the best friends I could ever ask for and I’m so thankful I have her as a friend. So I’m just going to ignore my grandma until she proves to me that she won’t judge every friend I have for living a certain distance from me.

Anonymous

orange_motor_scooter 2w

Yeah I usually try to change the subject and most of the time it works, but sometimes it doesn’t. But I think I’ve decided that I’ll try and change the subject and if she keeps bringing it up I’m just going to walk away. I think she has some weird feeling of trying to change who I hang out with even though she’s never met some of my friends besides the ones who moved as we got older. And I can’t tell my friends not to move when that opportunity comes up.