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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you changing dirty diapers? If you don't do it, eventually she will.

Why are you making her a sandwich? Say, it looks like you have time, and you didn't cook your meal, so time to make a sandwich for you and dh, all the stuff is out right now.

Place her clothes in a pile next to the washer. When she asks where they are, tell her they are in the pile next to the washer.[/quote]

Exactly. Martyrs who don't use their words are the worst.[/quote]

Yes. BUT it is quite the assumption for an adult to think their laundry will be done and food will be made for them, don’t you think? I can’t imagine asking anyone if they are making me a sandwich when they are making their kids lunch. [/quote]

The problem is OP contributed to that assumption by doing it![/quote]

This. If you want an all expense paid, all services rendered vacation from your "richer" relatives, and they are willing to give you one, why not go for it?

It is quite the assumption, but we don't know what kind of life and resentments the cousin has; I can't imagine that either, but I have a SIL who will go to our cousin's house, never bother to lift a finger or offer, and think people should be just so happy at having her present they will wait on her.

The hosting relatives have to call them on it, or stop doing things for the cousin, since the cousin has decided she is not part of the collective labor. Should she assume that? no. Has she assumed that? yes. So stop doing it.

She will either start diapering her own baby and wash her own clothes, or she will go back home and sulk because she doesn't have servants for her vacation any more. Solves the problem either way.

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