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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want/expect them to join you, it would be nice if you paid.  If you don't want to pay, I think that's fine, but I wouldn't expect them to come along in that case. [/quote]

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Yep.

My family occasionally offers. We frequently take them up on it, when we have the vacation time and no other vacation plans.

His parents never offer and never go anywhere that interests us, yet gets insulted when we don't go.[/quote]

This!  As some other Pps mentioned, as an adult, I have a relationship with my parents, where if they suggest a vacation, we can feel free to say no.  They understand it might not work out for our schedules.  But when we do vacation with my parents (and we have kids of our own now), they pay for all of us.  It is not necessarily every year or to extravagant places.  But they also ask us if it is a place we are interested in prior to booking.

As an unmarried adult, or when DH and I were dating, my parents usually invited us on a small vacation once every year or so and they paid.

My inlaws on the other hand, are local, and want us to vacation with them, but would not likely pay for us and go places we don't want to go.  So we do not go away with them because we can see them all the time where we live, and if we are going to go on vacation and use vacation time (and our own money!) it should be somewhere we enjoy.  [/quote]

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