How many grandparents do you have?

In My Humble Opinion
41

They are all dead now, but this is my list:

  1. My mother’s parents divorced when my mother was a teenager (well before I was born). Her father remarried, then died a few years later (before I was born). So I had two maternal grandmothers growing up, but no maternal grandfather.

  2. My father’s father divorced my father’s mother when she (my paternal grandmother) became incapacitated with Alzheimer’s, then he (my paternal grandfather) remarried, giving me another grandmother of sorts.

  3. My maternal grandmother (not the step) remarried very late in life, after she retired, so I technically had a new maternal grandfather.

  4. My parents are divorced and remarried. My stepfather’s mother was alive when my mother married my stepfather, and she was something of a grandmother to me while she was alive. (If I’ve met any of my stepmothers’–yes plural, because my father has been married three times now–parents, I don’t remember them at all.)

  5. My husband’s maternal grandparents were still alive when we got married, and they always treated me as a grandchild, too.

I guess the grand total here is 9 that I have actually met at some point in my life. Of those 9, only 1 is still alive.

42

I was born with 6:

My bio-mom’s mom
My bio-mom’s dad
My bio-dad’s mom
My bio-dad’s dad
My mom’s mom
My mom’s dad

My dad’s parents died before I was born.

My bio-dad’s parents died fairly recently, as did my bio-mom’s dad, who I adored. We buried him in his tackle box. :slight_smile:

43

5, all told.

2 grandmothers (both still living), 3 grandfathers (all deceased).

My father’s father died shortly before mom and dad married. Around the same time they got married, my grandmother married her second husband (who died about a year and a half ago). So, I grew up with my grandmother’s second husband as my grandfather, not my father’s father. (I do really wish I’d met Dad’s dad. :confused: )

My mother’s father died when I was 16. My grandmother hasn’t remarried (and claims she won’t), although she’s seeing someone. Sort of.

44

I had four grandparents, but knew only two of them.

Years before my parents were married, my mother’s mother died, and my father’s father died. After my parents got married, my father’s mother married my mother’s father. They’re the only grandparents I knew.