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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stay home.  They can bring the gifts when they bring them. [/quote]

Agreed. The second event doesn't have to be another Christmas, just the time when Grandma and Grandpa bring their presents.[/quote]

OP here. They make it into a second christmas. And they don't visit, so it's whenever we go visit them, not when grandma and grandpa bring presents. [/quote]

I'm not seeing why this is a bad thing. So your kids get Christmas gifts in July, or whenever. That's fine. Send their presents ahead of time, have a nice skype with them on Christmas morning and consider it done.[/quote]

OP here. It's not that easy. They start nagging us right after we return from Christmas to travel to them (we're exhausted, mostly me though). And DH caves and then we go up.

I really just want one Christmas. Does that make me a bad person? [/quote]

No, but it makes your husband one for ignoring the needs of his family and giving into demands that clearly upset his wife just so he doesn't have the backbone to establish some normal boundaries.

TL:DR - you have a husband problem.  Start there.[/quote]

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