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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to reframe this “thank goodness my crappy in-laws I don’t enjoy didn’t invite us on that vacation,
Dodged a bullet there!” would be a much more productive route for you.[/quote]

This.  I remember my DH telling me that he can't change his parents, they are who they are.  Which in a lot of ways is correct.  In some ways its being too passive. I now stand up for myself if I need to however I dropped the rope many years ago.  I rarely see them, we don't go on vacation with them, we don't even go have dinner with them and have since moved away from them.  However over time my attitude changed to this, thank goodness they don't want me around because my life is so much easier that way.

I have to laugh about your SIL.  My sister said the same thing when she had a baby and I didn't.  What is up with that, asking if you are jealous, it must be part of the competitive craziness, I still don't really understand it to this day but my sister was also the one who liked to be the queen bee, standing in the lime light, trying to one up, I guess they think having children is doing just that, lol.[/quote]

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