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[quote=Anonymous]Visiting. With both sets of parents.

My parents don't come as often, but when they come, they (well, mostly my Dad) wants to stay for at least 4 days. We have a small house, and we start to get pretty stressed out with each other after about 2 days. I wish they'd come for more frequent but shorter visits but my Dad complains about all the driving. It's better when DH isn't around (because he gets really irritated and then I get mad at him for being mad). I try to have them visit when DH is out of town for at least part of the time which helps.

My in-laws seem to have no concept that we work and have limited free time and vacation time and don't want to spend the vast majority of it with them. They want to visit (or have us visit) constantly and get really whiny if we tell them the timing doesn't work. They plan beach trips with no input from us on timing/location/etc and then pout when we say we can't join them. We get constant jabs about how we need to save vacation time to spend with them next year. I really feel like asking them how many vacations they took with their parents (DH says none) but it would just result in MIl crying, so it's not worth it. [/quote]

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