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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And apparently my sister's in laws do not want the inconvience of having their husbands away during the "busy holiday season." The reason they don't want the brothers' to visit basically. It's gross, but at least I know where we stand with them. [/quote]

This is depressing. I know my wife would act the same way if I were in your BILs' position. [/quote]

Hmm.  I don't think it would be necessary to drop everything and fly out to spend Christmas at Op's house.  Op has never asked that.  But a show of sympathy and support would be nice.

I know that when my husband was suddenly wheelchair bound due to an accident I certainly wouldn't have wanted to deal with overnight house guests on top of everything else.  A visit, a hot casserole, a phone call would have been nice.  An invasion would have been too much.

Fly in.  Stay at a hotel and offer to take the kids to a movie.  Rent a car and drop dinner off some night.  Or just have it delivered.  Anything to lighten the load.  At least while the family is in crisis mode.  Once things get on more of a schedule, local support has been established and logistics are worked out there isn't such need for a show of support.  You can visit, stay at a hotel, get a rent a car and offer to take the kids out bowling or do grocery shopping or some other type of running around.

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