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[quote=Anonymous]My DH, 8 month old son, and I had plans to visit my DH's hometown this weekend to see the grandparents, great grandparents and aunts.   These plans had been in place for about 2 months.

Yesterday, DH gets a text from MIL (his mom) that she doesn't think we should bring the dog.  She thinks our dog and their dog are going to attack our son.  This is totally irrational; we have had our son around our dog and their dog at least 3 other times with no issues.  DS and our dog get along great.  MIL's dog is a little wild, but we aren't concerned that she will hurt DS.  Even if that were a concern of ours, it seemingly isn't a concern of MIL's, who is more worried about our dog.  Anyway, this all blew up between DH and MIL yesterday and DH was so pissed that she would ask us not to bring the dog, that now he doesn't want to go at all.  I was not involved in the text conversation so I'm not sure exactly what was said, other than this snippet that DH cut and pasted for me:  "You need to grow up, it's not about you anymore, it's about your son."  I have not spoken to MIL or FIL about this since it blew up.

Although I wholeheartedly agree with DH that it is ridiculous that we can't bring our dog and MIL handled this so irrationally, on the other hand I think it's ridiculous to not go at all because we can't bring the dog.  I want DS to have a relationship with that side of the family and to see his great aunts and great grandparents.  DH is being so stubborn, though and now refuses to budge.

What should I do?  Take DS and go to the in laws without DH? (it's a 6 hr drive)?  Stay home and support DH's fight with MIL? Something else? [/quote]

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