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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For perspective, the aunt stayed on a hotel suite that coat $1500/night.  My mil bought my bil and his wife their flights and hotel nights.  These aren't people who are accustomed to pizza dinners. [/quote]

So they spent over $10K on a hotel to visit you, plus flights for everyone, and you wish they had fronted you $200 or $300 for food expenses?  I think they may be trying to teach you that:

1.  When you host people you need to be prepared for all that entails re expenses:
2.  Maybe crowding 15 people into your house was not the gathering they wanted, and therefore they did not want to encourage more of same in the future by subsidizing that one. (?)
3.  The money train is slowing down and will no longer be making such frequent or impressive stops.  Those stops may have been greater when your husband wasn't working, but now that he is they may want him to step up and show his financial independence and be the provider they presumably raised him (and gave him unlimited advantages and opportunities) to be.

I also think it's possible they may not have wanted to stay with you, but also didn't want to offend you, so they brought extra people with them so staying in a hotel would be necessary and not even arguably impolite.

They have been extremely generous to you in the past so I would not take offense at this. I wouldn't make a fuss over this, but remember that next time they visit you may be on the hook for a greater financial obligation than you had been used to before.  Good luck![/quote]

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