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[quote=Anonymous]My in-laws are generally fine, but I would never in a million years choose to spend time with them if I just met them at a dinner party or something--let alone invite them to stay in my house, want to stay at their house, go on vacation, etc.

It's true, you don't get to pick your family of origin, either. But you've been around them your whole life, and are connected to them in many ways.

But as adults, we pick our friends and the people we want to spend time with. I would just never CHOOSE to spend time with FIL or MIL if I didn't have to, and yet I spend a lot of time with them in "intimate home life" settings.

The one thing that would help if if they OBSERVED less and EXPECTED less. They observe aloud literally everything about me and my household, down to: "Oh, you buy BARQ'S root beer? We always buy A&W. Just drink your freaking root beer, you know?

And the expectation is just always more, more, more. "Thanks for hosting Christmas! We were hoping to stay for 7 nights instead of 5." Who does that?[/quote]

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