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Whether protecting your children from grandparents who hurt you is right

I keep my kids away from my parents because of how they treated me but my children are missing out on grandparents and I wonder if I'm being overprotective

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You're weighing your children's potential loss of extended family relationships against your responsibility to protect them from people who caused you harm.

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