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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You just need to step up and stand up to them.

My parents recently moved nearby with the same setup. It's their vacation home and they come for a month at a time. It's really awesome. I don't have to see them daily, but we still have lots of fun, they can babysit. I see them daily, but DH is busier and sees them mostly on weekends. They cook dinner for us every Monday and we love it. [/quote]

Did you read the op? Op's parents aren't awesome like yours. Posters who don't have malignant family members never get it. [/quote]

[b]They can't be all that "malignant" if OP was already seeing them five times a year before she had kids.[/b][/quote]

This part didn't really line up for me either. In some ways, it might be easier for OP as now, even though the visits are maybe longer or more frequent, they aren't under the same roof. That distance might help OP? Obviously OP has figured out SOME kind of dynamic that works or the visits wouldn't continue every 4-6 weeks now right? So I don't think to say that they are totally dysfunctional the way that many posters might be projecting is entirely accurate either.

This is a side question and totally serious, not for snark, but when a person is in therapy "for years" regarding the same relationship and issue as OP contended, what is the point after a while? Therapy is intended to be an ongoing process but not really a never-ending one for the same set of issues. Good therapists are there to sort of put themselves "out of a job" eventually, helping with coping mechanisms for the future, no?[/quote]

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