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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, I am sorry that you are so upset about this and that your family hasn't handled it well. I speak as someone whose immediate family (myself, dh and 2 kids) could never share a house with anyone else let alone my extended family. Since you mentioned that your MIL (your DH's mother) sent you a list of grievances after a vacation, is it at all possible that you and your family are difficult to travel with? I ask because my family and I are not "go with the flow" people and we tend to take our own vacations. Is it possible that maybe next year you could get your own small beach house and you could meet them during the day and then retire to your own accommodations? Maybe that would diffuse some of the tension?[/quote]

OP here. The comment you're referring to was written by someone else; MIL is lovely and doesn't have a problem with us (that I know of -- this discovery kind of makes me question everything!).

It is possible that we are difficult to travel with, sure -- I'm sure the food restrictions are a bummer, though H always brings a bunch of food that works for him and we are always offering to go off and eat by ourselves.  Even so, though, we've had our moments that probably annoyed everyone -- asking one sister to switch rooms with us when our youngest was a baby so we could fit her pack and play in the room, though it meant she lost the ocean view.  I bet that really annoyed her though I didn't know it at the time (and if I realized she felt this resentment I wouldn't have asked, though I'm not sure what I would have done).  But part of what hurts is that my sisters are certainly no pieces of cake, either.  One is adamant about traveling with their golden retriever, which always cuts the places we can rent down by more than 75% at least. The other has three kids who are manipulative, spoiled, prone to tantrums, and mean-ish, who I have secretly worried are a bad influence over my kids.  But I've sucked it all up and walked the dog and babysat the kids and never breathed a word of complaint because -- family.  Yet out of this bunch, I am the pariah?

Okay.  Whatever.  Never again.[/quote]

So sorry, Op, I take back my comment. Based on your response, it definitely sounds like your family members are the difficult ones, not you! Still resentful about losing an ocean view so your baby could sleep? Wow! Go plan your own trip and do what you and your dh like to do. Life is too short![/quote]

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