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My oldest will be going to college next year too. This is a special summer he doesn't need to account for with jobs or volunteering or test prep, so I'm offering him the trip of a lifetime with our nuclear family. I'm inviting my parents too. They're aging, DS is leaving for college, who knows when we'll get together again like this? There is no way I'd waste this special time with an event that's not important to our family.

If you feel strongly that you'd rather do something else this summer, then tell them no. You won't get this time back. Use it well.[/quote]

:roll: OP and her husband have already decided that this trip—which hello, her husband can’t get that much time off for—is not something that would serve them “well.” You sound like my parents and my aunt, who yipped and yawed about Time With Grandmother While She is Still Around when my grandmother was 75 years old. She lived to be 95, we spent loads of time together, but there was always the spectre of Family Duty that honestly made my siblings and I resentful when we missed out on opportunities to travel abroad, travel with friends, spend holidays with significant others, etc., etc. It’s crying wolf in the extreme. There is more to life than spending every vacation minute with family Because Family.[/quote]

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