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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd point out to the posters suggesting inviting MIL over instead to avoid the 2-4 hours of driving that hosting someone is often as much work and disruptive to your schedule. I know that I always clean my house before my MIL comes and would not want to entertain a visit while I was under work deadlines/husband traveling. I also would not want her coming over right after I got back from my own work travel because when DH is on his own with the kids the house looks like it was ransacked even when it was perfectly clean before I left. [/quote]

And that's okay.  It would be okay for OP to say "I'm super swamped right now but maybe when DH gets back?"  It's just strange that she's turned the request to see her grandson into "she's such a taker."[/quote]

She’s a taker because she’s trying to manipulate her DIL into driving 2 hours each way just to facilitate a visit with her. She’s doing this when she knows DIL is handling everything home related on her own while her husband travels. Of course, it’s a bad time!

When you know someone is dealing with a stressful time, you don’t pile on the requests for favors. That’s flat out rude. Of course, that’s only if you care about them. If you don’t care about them, then you probably do ask for whatever you can get away with and completely disregard what they’re going through.

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