My Mom knew her granddaughter who is in the Peace Corps was due to arrive in the USA 6/15/19 for the summer.
She is the daughter of my assaulting brother.
She got a Fulbright Scholarship this past year.
Mom was wondering if she got home safely.
I checked Moms Facebook for her.
She was no longer there in my Mom's friends list....?????
I had a friend check, did my nieces name still appear on Facebook.....perhaps she deleted her account.
She is still there....laying out her summer plans while stateside.
I knew how despicable my assaulting brother was.
I had no idea, it would extend to this.
If you have never traveled from one country to another, there is what is called jet-lag. Your body is trying to adjust to a different time zone, and for some it could take a week to get back to normal. I assume your niece had been away since late summer, correct? Again, a lot of adjusting returning home. Give her time to unpack and catch her breath.
And sometimes there is depression if one had left a country that they really loved visiting. Not saying your niece doesn't love her home town, but there are wonderful places worldwide. I know I felt that way after spending time in a country that had fields of beautiful flowers, and wonderful old architecture.
On another subject, I am confused, what does your brother [father of your niece] have to do with this situation? And what are you referring to when you say Assaulting? Just curious as this matter isn't very clear.
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It’s not a facebook thing.
It’s a 27-year old granddaughter, forsaking her own grandmother.
I am not on Facebook. I have friends that are.
They have told me, granddaughter is still there.
I have to separate my Mother wondering why her granddaughter hasn’t called her, from what I have control over.
Mother lives with me. I am it.
I hear these things, but, nothing I can do.
Just venting about some burnout.....things we deal with when the parent lives with me.
Plus, I have been reading in the newspaper how younger people are getting away from Facebook. They have found they were wasting too much time sitting in front of a screen and missing life around them.
For myself, I never had Facebook nor Twitter, or any of the other apps out there. Heck, I have cousins my age [in my 70's] who don't even own a computer or cellphone. It's wonderful to actually chat landline to landline :)
This is between MOM and your niece.
Stay out of it, would be my advice.