When you visit you might like to encourage them to have some "alone time" together, any opportunity to talk privately, perhaps even a couple of hours. When my brother or I visited our parents with our partners, I/we made it a point do something with our Dad -- e.g. go to the pub with him, or play a game of squash -- while our partners did something else, for example go the cinema with Mum, help in the garden, work on their computer, or anything like that.

When you visit you might like to encourage them to have some "alone time" together, any opportunity to talk privately, perhaps even a couple of hours. When my brother or I visited our parents with our partners, I/we made it a point do something with our Dad -- e.g. go to the pub with him, or play a game of squash -- while our partners did something else, for example go the cinema with Mum, help in the garden, or do some homework alone on their computer, or anything like that.