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[quote=Anonymous]For all of you who have kitchen closed relatives, why do you continue to stay with them?

I have a kitchen is closed MIL and other than when we visit them in the winter at their cabin for skiing, we never stay with them.  It's just easier to maintain a peaceful relationship if we don't stay with them.

I mean, when we go to their cabin for skiing, that's usually just a long weekend and it's hard enough to bite my tongue then.  I can't imagine having to do it for longer than 3-4 days.

My MIL is one who allows you to have water (no other drinks) all day but food can only be consumed at mealtimes, which are 7 am, 1 pm, and 6 pm.  She has zero flexibility, either.  If a kid slept in past once breakfast had been cleaned up, no breakfast for them.  And we're not talking elaborate spreads, either.  Breakfast is always 2 or 3 boxes of cereal sat out, the milk jug sat out, and the OJ jug sat out.  She always complains that she doesn't get to see her grandkids as much as "the other grandparents" yet she gets defensive when she's told that it's because it's too expensive for some of them to visit and stay in a hotel (they live in a summer vacation destination) and too stressful to stay at their house.  My SIL is the only one who stays with them because she has no kids and is slightly as insane about food as MIL.    [/quote]

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