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[quote=Anonymous]After years of holiday shenanigans instigated by my MIL, I put my foot down and said we would host all holiday events at our house.  I got stuck with Thanksgiving and Christmas, but at least it meant that I could spend some portion of the holiday with my own parents and my sister.  For years and years, my MIL would tell us one set of plans based around the needs of her extended family that would change at the last minute and ruin any opportunity for me to spend any portion of a holiday with my own family.  I finally took her apart one Thanksgiving and told her off publicly and I told her from this minute forward that *I* would be making the holiday plans in the family, she would always be welcome to join whatever plans we made, but that we would *not* be making our nuclear family's plans around her extended family's schedule at all ever again.  I also told her that if she preferred to spend the holidays with her extended family, that was fine too, but that my child has maternal grand parents too and that it is just as important for her to spend time with them.  Once I laid down the law, I have had no problems since then.[/quote]

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