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it wasn't terrible.

there is no option of limiting their visits or asking them to stay in a hotel. my DH would rather die than ever let that happen.

nonetheless, it was ok. i found two interesting things: 1) my MIL constantly defends/butters up/supports my DH, even whne he is in the wrong (his sister was here, so i saw her support her son over her DD, even when my SIL was right about things). I have never quite noticed this before, but that women lives her whole life to protect her son. Slightly funny story: at one point, my Dh said, i'm hungry, i'm going to have a snack. and i said, oj have some fruit, i have a ton of peaches and MIl jumps in and says "I was just going to cut one up for you, son." and i responded "oh, he doens't need it cut up, he's a grown up, he'll be ok" - which i know is snarky, but i really hate how she does that ALL the time - the constant cutting up fruit for him or catering to him.

and 2) - - i am a negative nilly. just about everything they say or suggest, i say the opposite (see above, for example - i could have just internally rolled my eyes and enjoyed posting on dcum, but i HAD to say something)... its almost a disease. I found that I couldn't let anything go... now, some of it was truly my beliefs - they're anti-organic and like to get into big debates with me about what's wrong with pesticides, so, in that case, disagreeing with them merely upholds my personal position, but sometimes, i found myself disagreeing regardless of what was being  said.

something to work on before the next trip - we have to go see them for a week in august.[/quote]

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