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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer is that you don't have to see them every year. How often can you reasonably travel? once a year? twice? more? Then you make a schedule...ex: two trips a year, you travel to everyone once every other year, if they want to see you more often they have to travel to you. [/quote] OP here, I probably should have also mentioned that neither DH nor I is from somewhere rural so our relatives moved there. The two places we visit every year are where we grew up. Anyway, so I think its definitely reasonable to make the trip every other year. I worry about our vacation time and since it takes a whole day to travel to each of these places it would be only a short visit. The one trip I worry is not feasible is to see my MIL. No airports, its a 10 hour drive which I just don't see happening with toddlers. She moved from an easily accessible city to somewhere completely inaccessible, but in the same town as her new husband's family and far from us. [b]I almost feel like if you move to a rural area and far away from family the effort should be on your end.[/b] But again, I feel guilty if we don't reciprocate. [/quote] I find of feel this way too. Do they have internet? Have a weekly "Skype with Granny" chat. Go visit her every other year and suggest that they visit you on the off years. Maybe at a special time in DC, build a family tradition around it, like Cherry Blossom festival, of mid-December to see the White House Christmas trees and go ice skating at the sculpture garden. We would visit my great aunt in NYC every December for the Rockettes, Rockefeller center, a broadway show and other NYC touristy things. My sister and I cherished that time with her and will always remember it. Suggest that kind of thing for your MIL, in DC, not her middle of nowhere town. [/quote]
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