anybody living in the UK who could give me their opinion ... that would be appreciated, TIA.
situation: I send photos of my children to their British grandmother ... we don't get a "thank you" or even an acknowledgement that the photos arrived in good shape ... one time when my DH sent his mother a photo via e-mail, she mentioned the photo to my son when she wrote to him but again never said thank you.
question: is it considered so common place for adult children to send photos of their children to their parents that no acknoledgement nor thanks are deemed necessary ?
... a bit like in the US, when the economy took a turn for the worse, we noticed that less and less parents would bother replying to birthday invitations although most birthdays were taking places at various commercial venues where you had to give a final number by a certain date and pay for no-shows too ...
it's true that we don't have a super relation-ship, nor my DH with his mother
maybe we just aren't a good fit for personality and that's it.
I don't know why it is bothering me so much but I really would like to know what it's like in other families regarding that precise point ...
somehow I just can't (yet ?) totally accept that it's "just one of these cultural differences",
we know there are cultural differences, we sometimes joke about it even = ... I'm french so we have noticed that DH tends to think that I don't say "please" enough, whilst I feel that DH doesn't say "thank you" enough ...
so what's the norm or the average normal reaction when receiving photos of grand children in the UK ?
