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[quote=Anonymous]My brother and SIL recently moved back to the area and moved within a mile of where I live.  SIL is a sahm.  We are not close and don't particularly even like each other.  We play nice at family functions and our kids are around the same age and play together.

I have a wonderful nanny that cares for our kids.  She works a lot of hours and without her I don't know how H and I would do it.  SIL asked if she could drop her kids off with nanny from time to time for play dates while she did appointments.  I explained to her that is not how play dates work and that she was basically trying to get free babysitting.  I told her that nanny arranged the kids play dates during the week and it was usually with her nanny friends.  Given that we had very different ideas of what play dates were I told her nanny was not available to host her kids.

You would have thought the world had ended.  SIL went immediately and complained to my brother.  He called me and asked me to apologize.  I said for what.  His wife tried to get free babysitting in the guise of a play date.  All I did was call her out on it.  He thanked me for being difficult and we ended the conversation.  Was I out of line?[/quote]

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