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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are your kids friends with each other? Do they see each other often? I ask because I married into a family like the functional ones on your trip you are jealous of and my husband and his siblings are genuinely friends and also live far apart.  They enjoy spending time together and together with their parents. I wish I knew what the magic formula is to make that happen, but I’m an only child with parents who bicker all the time. I stopped inviting my parents on trips with my husband’s family because I am constantly making excuses for them and managing my mom’s jealousy over how much fun and how easy and comfortable his family is and how I’m part of that now. [/quote]

It sounded like the 3 families have all known each other for many years and vacationed together in childhood.

Now they all went on a ski trip with SOs and OPs adult kids kept No Showing at things.

Just ask them in a week or so individually what was going on there.

Maybe all the adult children have taken different paths in college or afterwards and it’s better to just meet up at a local BBQ than a weekend trip. I dunno.

My family grew up traveling with cousins or family friends and now we’ve all stood up in each others weddings, are each others kids god parents and see each other 1-2 times a year when in town visiting our folks. All different jobs, incomes but same values. Now we’re attending each others parents funerals (75-80 yos) and supporting each other that way. We “kids have now known each other since birth, or 45 years. Like a distant sibling. Tons of shared memories. [/quote]

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