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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Visiting is easier.  They do all the cleaning and cooking. Hosting is difficult because you have to clean and cook before they arrive and all during.  You are responsible for providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner day after day.  You have to keep wiping down and sweeping everything.  It’s constant cooking the next meal for everyone.  It’s not relaxing. [/quote]

This is only true if your hosts actually do all the cleaning and cooking. At my ILs, this is not the case. When we visit her for Thanksgiving, we have to do all the grocery shopping and cooking (she will not travel to us). I would not mind this as she is older and I understand that she doesn't want to cook for a crowd, but my siblings-in-law live near her and do not help and I think it's so weird. Like we travel across three states and then prepare the whole meal and my BIL and SIL just show up an hour before dinner and sit around and wait to be served. And they don't help clean! DH and I always put away all the leftovers (and make stuff for BIL and SIL to take home) and then DH's aunt likes to do all the dishes as her contribution. BIL and SIL are in their 30s, I don't get this dynamic at all. They still behave like children. Even my kids help with setting the table and help us with cooking some of the sides but these two grown adults just sit around waiting for dinner. So irritating.[/quote]

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