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[quote=Anonymous]Curious what everyone else thinks about this:

We alternate holidays. My family is cross country and DH's is about 2 hours away. My parents didn't want to be alone over the Christmas holidays, so they wanted to come stay with us for a few weeks over Christmas (we enjoy their company and love when they visit, DH included). I didn't know what to say, so I told them that this was fine. We would go to DH's parents for Christmas eve and Christmas and then come home Christmas night to my parents. My parents are fine with being alone while we see my in laws.

DH thinks it's not fair we can't spend the 24th-28th with his family and thinks that this isn't a good split. We see his family at least every month, so I don't see why 2 days isn't enough time for Christmas with them. DH also thinks this is my parents trying to steal Christmas from his parents. My parents are upset we spend every other holiday including Thanksgiving with DH's family, so they do think they deserve every Christmas. We've also received comments from DH's other relatives that they're sad they won't see us over the Christmas holiday since we spend the weekend after Christmas visiting. My solution was to invite everyone (inlaws and my parents) to my house for Christmas dinner, but that went over like a lead balloon.

I feel torn. I don't want my parents to be alone over the holidays, but I also don't want to be rude to inlaws. I really just want to be fair, but instead feel like the bad guy to everyone. [/quote]

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