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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My in laws are nice people, they are involved with their grandkids, will drop anything for us at a moment's notice, etc.

They don't live nearby, so when they come to visit, it's either for a weekend or sometimes for a week. They are retired, so basically just live to visit us or their other son and grandkids. They visit to help out quite a lot with the kids, during school breaks, when my DH has to travel, etc.

Both my parents died (my dad when I was 4, my mom 14 years ago) and my few siblings live far away and are busy with their own families, so my in laws are much more involved in our lives than my side of the family.

Yet, by the time they are done staying for a week, I feel mentally and physically exhausted and wiped and extremely irritable. This just happened, DH had to travel for a week of work during winter school break, there's no denying that we needed the help. However, a whole week of accommodating different eating preferences, habits, slight differences in how they handle the kids, less ability to exercise when they visit, etc.

DH came home exhausted as his work trip involved working crazy hours, so was joking with me when I said I was exhausted. But I am! They left Sunday and I still feel out of sorts! I thought it was Friday last night and deliberately turned off my alarm for the morning, I am so out of it (luckily woke up in time though!)

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Updating to add, I just found out that DH now needs to be gone for a whole week at the end of March due to an unexpected work travel obligation on the west coast that just came up, and I'm both exhausted and angry as I'll be doing this again in a few weeks. DH feels bad and is being lovely and pushing me to schedule time to get away with my own friends who I haven't seen for the entire pandemic and time to visit my siblings. [/quote]

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