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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just don’t pay them any attention when they make these comments if you clearly warned them. Don’t waste your energy being upset. Just walk out of the room. Next time it might just be easier to say, you are welcome to stay at our home and we’ll get the guest room ready but we have plans all weekend so we won’t be able to spend more than a few minutes here or there together. If they continue to complain about the bday parties, you can just say on repeat, “if only we had known sooner we would have declined the invite”. But also ask yourself if you’d be so easily irritated by your own parents. It’s nice they are interested in spending time with your family. My ILs are the opposite. They are practically strangers to my kids. They moved across the country after our second was born. Initially they traveled here every year or two and would tell us they’d be here for 1-2 weeks so we would clear our schedule. A week or so out, DH would try to pin down plans and logistics but they’d just provide vague assurances that they’d be seeing us. In the end, we got whatever day and time was left after they’d scheduled with their other kids and their friends. It was always just a few hours on a random afternoon. So I stopped clearing our schedules. Then they stopped visiting. I would have really loved if they’d wanted to involved like your in-laws. [/quote]

Your situation has nothing to do with what op is dealing with. Just because your inlaws are horrible people who don't care about their son and his family doesn't mean op has to put up with a different form of rudeness. [/quote]

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