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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents give us a check every year, intended toward a vacation together. I think it’s sweet but would never expect anything.

My in-laws have a habit of trying to schedule other events and forget it’s our anniversary and are mad when we decline to spend our anniversary with them.[/quote]

I know this is a tangent but my MIL does this with my birthday, too. She'll ask us to come visit the weekend closest to my birthday, and we always decline because I we are planning to get go out for celebratory dinner or just get together with friends (and I also usually plan alone time while DH takes our DD out for some 1:1 time, which is probably my favorite part of my birthday). This has happened at least six times in the 12 years we've been together. But when my DH says "Oh we can't it's DW's birthday that weekend and we have plans," my MIL is instantly upset that I apparently don't want to spend my birthday visiting her. It's so weird! My own parents have never been upset that I don't spend my birthday with them. I have close friends I've known for 40 years who don't get upset about it. It is so weird to me that she seems fixated on making me spend a birthday with her. A mystery we'll never solve because we'll never do it.[/quote]

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