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Chances are you only complain why they hardly ever visit or call. But even that is far from having nobody at all except for your last surviving generational peers.

Parents and grandparents perceive their descendants' life as if it was a third person view game. Much of it happens of-screen and the controls are terrible, often worse than absent, but it still keeps them interested in the next day/month/year. If you only have your own remaining years to look forward to you have much less.