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[quote=Anonymous]Mine expect to be entertained constantly, except when they don’t, which is impossible to determine by their actions or lack there of at any given time. They will pull out their iPads or books and start doing their thing, but if one of us then pulls out a book or a phone, immediately their eyes snap towards us and we get a demand for more food, another glass of tea, a walk, an errand they need us to take them on…it’s exhausting. Starts at 6am and goes until 11. Shockingly, my bed time is so much earlier when they are around!

When we were much younger, I tried so hard to accommodate them. But when they gave me grief about wanting to go quietly nurse our first baby in her room so I could maybe get her to sleep because they’d woken her on purpose from every nap I’d tried to get her to take, I lost my ever loving mind and it was the last straw.

Now, we’ve not gone on vacation with them in well over a decade. If we have to attend an out of town family event together, we rent our own place and spend the whole time hearing the whining about “togetherness,” which to them means sure can sleep 12 adults and 9 children in a 4 bedroom house, you’ll just sleep on the floor in the bedroom John and Sally are in and we retire from events when it is convenient to us, because no, the 2 year old cannot stay up until midnight, thanks.

If they come here to visit, I now go about our lives, because they’ll stay for 3 weeks and expect us to not take the kids to their normal activities, for us to take the time off from work so they can stare at us doing nothing all day, etc. Conveniently, I often have to work late, have work events, can’t miss one time events for friends, etc. while they are here. And we’ve finally reached the ages where I no longer feel guilty sending my spouse and our two kids without me to fly to visit them if he feels so obligated.[/quote]

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