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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does everyone really vacation with parents?  We have traveled maybe 5 times in 20 years with my ILs or parents.  (Actually exactly 4 times - to spend Easter at a beach and once with my mother to her hometown)  We usually visit them at their homes and take our vacations as our own immediate family.  [/quote]

Yes that's the thing. Parents and inlaws both want us to vacation with them at least 4x a year. I think it's part of treating us like children still versus adults and it's also partly because they have all this free time now as empty nesters. They were jealous of the 3-4x a year international vacations that DH and I took in our 20s. Now that we have young children though, we have zero annual leave (because of maternity leaves) and less money. Our parents are desperate to spend their vacations with their grandchildren, but we can't afford it (mostly the no annual leave). No one offers to pay for us though and I'm not sure it would make a difference if they did.

My parents choose super fun destinations (Turkey, Normandy, Morocco) and we will go with them on those. Spending a week at Atlantic City or OBX with my inlaws in a dirty condo from the 1960s is a no go. Just can't waste my LWOP or annual leave on that. [/quote]

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