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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am very patient when it comes to my husband seeing our nephew play football. Even my MIL has mentioned that most wives would not tolerate how understanding I am of his frequent attendance at the football games and scrimmages. [/quote]

What does this mean? Do you see his nephew as some sort of threat or competition? [/quote]

Some of us really, really believe in extended family.  My sister lives in the same town with my brother and was able to make time to see our nieces gymnastics competitions.  I have already regretted that I live 1500 miles away and could not make it for their competitions although I kept up on how they were doing.  We also live far from my wife's family, but we used to get regular updates from his cross country meets and tracked his results on-line and such.  If we could have made it to these events, we would have attended as many of the events as we could have made time for.  It's family.  It's important.

I agree with the PP that said that knowing that he had a 2 hour drive each way, that it would have been better to plan the birthday dinner for the next night instead.  People move celebrations for birthdays all the time, even kids birthdays.  There is nothing magical about celebrating a birthday on the specific day that is worth this much family angst.  Learn to pick your battles; for me, this would not be one of them.[/quote]

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