Everyone plays favorites in the family. You'd be lying to yourself if you said you didn't have a favorite cousin or a favorite uncle, but when it comes to grandparents and their grandbabies, things get a little murky as far as the ethics of actually claiming a favorite. Like your own hereditary children–if you pick a favorite, you'll likely never share your biased opinion for fear of catching a few judgemental looks.
But the grandparents in this next story rightfully had a favorite–and it was entirely due to the exclusionary actions of their entitled daughter-in-law.
After shunning them for years out of her children's lives, Grandma and Grandpa were getting tired of getting turned down, belittled, or shoved to the side at every family event. So they stopped reaching out entirely and lost contact with the kiddos. Luckily, their other son was having children of their own and they were included in every family event, saw the grandbabies all the time, and grew very close to their side of the family. You'd think that this would be the happy ending to our tale, but things turned sour when the DIL discovered that the grandparents were giving their favorite grandkids heirloom jewelry.
Now that presents and gifts were involved, the entitled daughter-in-law was suddenly acting like she wasn't the one who drove the wedge in the first place.
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