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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ask your DH very specifically what he thinks he cannot handle without you.  It it sandwich-making?  TV-watching?  Pleasantry-saying?  FIL-butt-wiping?  Out with it![/quote]

OP here. He says his mom bought food for me for the weekend and I am expected to be there so it is rude of me to back out.
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OP, trust me, if I had to do it over again I would have just said no twenty-one years ago. My husband has always been just like yours. So worried that I would offend his mother if I didn't go with him every single time he went to his parents' house--two miles down the road. And definitely for stupid reasons like how organized she was and that she plans ahead and had done so counting on me coming. Would have helped to know that before I was aksed. In any event, I started a pattern that I couldn't break. Say no now, set a standarnd and some boundaries. It's not 1960. Men and women have very different roles. Do not set this expectation. Just say no. [/quote]

This is a wise advice. You don't want to go on a path you don't want to walk on for next 10-20 years.[/quote]

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