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[quote=Anonymous]We live about a 4 hour flight from each set of parents. (Plus a long drive from the airport, for my in-laws.)

Generally go to see my husband's family for one week at Christmas. We spend a week with my family over the summer (usually we travel somewhere with them). I usually fly back to see my family another 1-2 times during the year. (We work remotely; it's not really easy to work from their place but it's possible.)

I don't get a lot of vacation so that's usually about that for vacation. We try to get in 1-2 long weekends somewhere driving distance, too.

Our parents usually come visit us once a year, too. They are all older - and now have mobility issues on both sides.

It's ok for us to prioritize seeing them in our vacation time, I think. I would love to go take some real vacations but I don't get a lot of vacation time and we're not swimming in extra travel $ right now. So that's just going to be an occasional thing in this stage of life.

The alternative, realistically, is that we move closer to one set of parents - and so we don't need to schedule seeing them like this; then we'd get to go on more vacations. We've talked about that, but we really like where we live. [/quote]

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