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its not though, and I say this as someone who is having a harder time living a 5-6 hour drive away from family the older I get, so I get it that it FEELS like you should get priority when you are the one farther away from family.

Here is the rub though, a big part of the reason people choose to stay closer to their hometowns is because they want a more routine involvement with family, that shouldn't mean you don't get special times with them too, in fact that closeness is part of the reason for staying close, to be close on holidays AND regular times. Its not unfair to want to spend a holiday with your parents or siblings just because you also have made choices to keep them closer during non holiday times.

Like I said, I am actually on the traveling spouse side of things and I don't think its unfair to my family if we are with DHs family. 
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+1.  I have made a lot of tradeoffs to stay close to my family (and being close to the family is one of those tradeoffs, if you know what I mean) but I wouldn't want to get less time on holidays because of it.  I chose to stay nearby in part to make it easier to spend holidays with them![/quote]
So your DH never gets to visit or see  his family for the holidays?[/quote]

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