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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] My ILs are like this too.  It's in stark contrast to my own family vacations (on both my mother's and father's sides) where people were basically allowed to do whatever they wanted:  we're at the beach?  people read, go oulet shopping, go down to the water, whatever floats their boat.  we're at a lake?  same thing, people do whatever they want, we all get together for dinner at night-time.  But, with my in-law vacations, everybody is expected to do the same thing at the same time, and everybody goes, "What's the matter with so-and-so?  What's the matter?  Is somethign wrong?  What happened?" if someone breaks off for a bit to do their own thing.  It is always a federal case if I try to get downtime.  You woudl think someone karate-chopped grandma and threw kerosene and a match onto her prone body on the floor.  IT's viewed as THAT much of a big deal.[/quote]

This is how my husband's family is at any kind of gathering.  When we were dating and were with his family at a party, they all thought I didn't like them because I wasn't dancing.  They kept coming up to me and telling me to dance.  I'm usually the one who is off in a corner conversating with one or two people.  But the music was so loud it was impossible to talk to anyone.  At my own wedding reception, his cousin runs up to me and says in a very worried tone, "why isn't your whole family dancing?"  I looked at her with a puzzled expression and said, "I guess they don't want to dance?"  It was funny, because I actually thought more of my family was dancing than I had ever seen before.  [/quote]

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