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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the occasional mother-son lunch or coffee is perfectly fine, but once it becomes a mother-father-son-sister-brother lunch or coffee, not at least inviting the spouse(s) is rude.  It’s been transformed from one-on-one time to a family event, and your child’s spouse is family too.[/quote]

+1.  Lots of scenarios here that I find organic and totally fine.  Go grab a drink just you and dad while you're visiting, or you and mom go get manicures (maybe you even take the grandkids).  Maybe a mother and her daughters have done a girls weekend every year since the girls were in high school, so it isn't odd that the husbands (including dear old dad) aren't invited each year.  Or a father-son golf weekend.  Maybe one spouse can't take vacation, so you take your kids to see your parents for a few days.

This is different to me than deliberate exclusion, especially in a true vacation situation.  Also agree that once adult children are married, they are not part of the nuclear family with their mom and dad.  They split off into their own new nuclear family in their own household.
YMMV. [/quote]

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