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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My in-laws are retiring and turning 70, so they’ve announced that they’re taking the whole family on a trip to celebrate. I’m not excited at all because the trip is a national park that I have to fly my family of 5 to and take a week of vacation time for. I also have to rent a car. In-laws are paying for the Airbnb and food only.  I’d much rather go on the vacation I had planned to take this summer but now can’t go on bc I don’t have enough vacation time. I’m going on my in-laws’ trip bc that is the right thing to do, but I’m so annoyed that they think they’re treating me to some amazing gift when it’s really their own egos they’re treating.

Vent over. [/quote]

I get that it’s not what you want to do and it’s nice of you for doing it any way because it’s the right thing to do. However, it’s his parents’s 70th and they are paying for part of it. You aren’t poor and would’ve gone somewhere else if not here, money is not coming out of your mortgage payment. People pay for their parents’s living, vacations, medical, travel etc. all the time. Go do it with a good spirit and some day your kids will honor you as well. That being said, we don’t know if there is more to it or not, if this is a trend to impose expenses and events then of course you are rightfully upset. No one should be forced to spend their vacation days and budget on trips they don’t want to go to. You should discuss it with your husband and come up with a polite way to say you prefer to vacation by yourselves. [/quote]

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