YOU SAY

I’ve seen a few letters recently from grandparents who are upset about not seeing their grandchildren, usually because of their son or daughter’s partner.

My husband and I had a situation with our daughter-in-law and very early on we realised we had two choices – either say what we really felt and lose contact with our granddaughter, or swallow everything that was thrown at us.

We chose the latter and have been overlooked, ignored, left out and so on but, for the sake of being in our granddaughter’s life, we have put up and shut up.

It hasn’t been easy and I’ve shed tears in private, but I kept telling myself that babies grow up and find voices of their own. Name and address supplied