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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH's family is Jewish. Every bar/bat mitzvah, wedding, and funeral is a command performance. Not going is not an option regardless of cost, distance, age of your children, how we'll you know the honoree, etc. I always assumed it was a Jewish thing. In my family, skipping was fine as long as you mailed your gift on time.

So thrilled we got out of DH's cousins far away wedding this summer because they decided to do no kids. My inlaws are so much more understanding about this than us just not wanting to go.[/quote]

You just assumed it was a Jewish thing? [/quote]

Yes.

In my (not jewish) family, no one feels guilty about not attending the far away wedding of a distant cousin. You send a regret and a nice gift from the registry.[/quote]

You realize how idiotic it is to assume that one Jewish family is an exemplar of an entire religion/culture/ethnicity? [/quote]

It's definitely your in-law thing. Jewish here and so is my DH and nobody in either of our families cares if you don't go provided you do the proper thing and RSVP with your regrets on time. You sound like a peach![/quote]

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