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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, convey to your DH that 1) being upset about it a full year later is over the top and 2) if he wants to, from now on he can do pickups arrangements however he pleases. If he and SIL are American born and educated, there has to be a way to reason with him.

Your post resonated with me because I am on the receiving end of the opposite - visiting DH's family overseas, where culturally they feel the need to pick us up from the airport. But also culturally, it's acceptable to be late, so we end up waiting about an hour every time after a 9 hour flight, it drives me up the wall every time...:)[/quote]

LOL, same here about being on the receiving end.  DH's family are immigrants (he was born here) and his mother is offended that we don't call someone in the family to drop off or pick up our family of five at the airport when we travel.  She says we act like "strangers" or like "we don't have family" bc we either use long term parking or take a cab.  In the early years, we tried to take them up on their offer and they were late or would show up with a car full of people so we didn't all fit (esp car seats!) etc, it was a stressful mess - but they acted like they were doing us some big favor! So much easier to take care of ourselves!

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