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[quote=Anonymous]Once the children are a certain age, there is NO WAY they would want to share a room with their parents!

Should the children be expected to stand up to whomever is wronging them at this age, believing family would initially do the right thing?

Some families are rude and appalling, that is just how they are and they will never change.

My friend's MIL rented a beach house that was WAY TOO SMALL for how many people she invited.  To top it off, my friend (married with two grown children) was given the smallest room for FOUR people, while the SIL (2 people total) TOOK the LARGEST room.  Everyone suffered, and guests either left early or flat out refused to stay the whole week.

My friends are more than happy to pitch in for a larger house, but why should they be the only ones when the siblings all have steady, well paying jobs?  Why should it be on one sibling to contribute to a vacation they do not feel necessary?

I can kind of see my friends point.  Her vacation time is limited.  And they go on this so called vacation to please the elderly parent.  But really, this could go on for ten more years and my friend would be sacrificing her limited vacation time (every single year) by either partially paying for the greedy SIL (who "has" to go to this particular place); or by "sucking it up" and taking the smallest, darkest room with four people.

I think my friends days of supplementing the SILs good life is OVER, as she has been more than generous to her family and this is the "thanks" she gets.

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