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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How long of visits are we talking about and how far away do they live? 
That sounds miserable for more than an afternoon. Don’t they run out of stuff to talk about?[/quote]

OP here. We're talking multi-day/overnight visits, about four nights. AND an entire week at the beach every summer. Yes, they do run out of things to talk about! They repeat stories, observations, opinions, and general blather. I swear to you, hand to God, my IL has asked me whether I bake cookies using butter or Crisco at least 25 times. That is not an exaggeration.[/quote]

NP: If you were talking about a weekend afternoon of four hours I'd say yes you were being rude. But overnight? No. Dh needs to tell them "I think you have a different picture in your head of how these visits should go. Marla and I sometimes split up throughout the day to get things done and indulge our own interests, and then we have something to talk about over dinner. We've been trying to do visits your way, so this visit we're going to do it our way." [/quote]

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