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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, we are not alone!

I have come to realize that my MIL and IL's are not going to change, and therefor, not going to get any better.  I have yet to figure out what to do with our extremely limited vacation time and people who "say" they want us there, yet do not exactly "show" they want us there.

What MIL wants is bragging rights, to say whether or not this person or that person attended.  It gets really old, really quickly. I suppose if they had different personalities (or any personality, really), non-blood visitors would feel more welcome and enjoy themselves.  At all.

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This is what I'm facing for next year. [/quote]

I realized the same thing about our family vacation this year! After I specifically said I'd like certain things to be different than last year, MIL ignored all of those requests. Glossed over a traumatic incident involving our two year old having to go to ER after an incident with a cousin. MIL just wants to tell everyone we came, she doesn't actually care about our enjoyment or comfort or difficulties of taking vacation from our jobs during a busy time of year. Enough. I already decided I'm not going next year. Might keep younger kid home with me also. [/quote]

Bragging rights before love and warmth, always - is this an unspoken code of rotten, bitter, miserable MIL's?  She is somehow doing us a favor? UGH, it's tiresome and predictable.  I'm so over it.  Already planning next summer *without* the IL's, happily.  They have managed to disrupt our summers far too much, and they could not care less: "it's all about MIL".  Yeah, right. Not anymore. 
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