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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on. Why couldn't they come a little early?  Is your mental health hanging by that much of a thread?  Park  them in front of the TV or let them  help. I would  have been put out too. I think you were petty here and maybe there's other issues with them...I don't know. They are family,  not  dinner party guests.  They should feel more welcome, and you made them  feel like invited acquaintances. [/quote]
F no. OP made a clear boundary based on her needs, end of discussion. [/quote]

No, it's not the end of discussion  :wink: , but you love those boundaries,  is that right? It's all a matter of perception. She  calls it boundary setting, but many would call it rigidity and immaturity.  All they wanted was to come a few f- ing hours early.  And then she used her sanity as an excuse. This is from the "oh puleeeze Hall of Fame."

There are plenty here who have issues with boundaries with inlaws...real issues.  In this case, OP is just kind of mean.

I'm on team MIL, and I'm sure she'll have a great time with this example going forward when she is commiserating with her friends. [/quote]

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I don’t worry about boundaries with my parents or my husband’s sister because we have conversations about what works for everyone and *they care about our family’s needs and preferences* I have to set up boundaries with my MIL and y own brother because they try to ram though their own agenda regardless of what I say. No one wants to be managing their relationships like this but with some people  it’s necessary. If you have never been a working parent of young children during a pandemic you can’t imagine how precious a few hours off work can be but if someone is telling you that is important to them you *can* listen and respect their feelings 
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Again...not end of the discussion  because you say so. Lol. You must be a trip with your boundaries. Love those " end of discussions" thing. Why not wave your flag higher?  Good grief.

I was and still am a  parent,not a MIL, sorry... with a house full of kids and a larger than life career,but I  do not have a giant stick up my bum which didn't allow my in laws ( now deceased)  to arrive early  on a holiday, or anytime- then or now. My sister ALWAYS comes several hours early to everything, noone knows why, and no one cares . This is so stupid to make this much of a big deal of it. And immature.

Relax a bit, unclench. It's not worth it. Your parents and inlaws won't be here one day, sooner than you think, and you will realize how sad this all is. Is there any other mountain that you can choose to claim as your own?

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I’m the PP you are responding to. I am genuinely curious- do you allow your family and your IL to show up at your house whenever they want and stay as long as they want? I feel like most of us say no sometimes or our families have some idea of what our preferences are and can calibrate their requests. I posted earlier that My MIL wanted a key to our first apartment- would you have been fine with that? They routinely show up at my SILs house unannounced and during times the kids are asleep or unavailable and expect that to be fine. When they babysit they rearrange the furniture because my MIL thinks she knows better than my SIL. Is that all fine? You just have to have your furniture like that now and wake up your kid from their nap because the grandparents won’t be around forever? I think it’s a matter of degree and right and wrong depend a lot of the situation.

Believe it or not I actually think my ILs are good people and I truly want to be able to spend time with them but I can’t let them call all the shots or I will hate them because I have no privacy and my kid is miserable. Lucky you if your family is perfect, some of us are doing our best with what we have! [/quote]

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