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[quote=Anonymous]OP, your parents usually go on vacations they stay on for at least a month it sounds. They do this because they are elderly and traveling those long distances is exhausting. You need time to recoup.

They are not going to stay a month or longer at your house because they don't like where you live. SO they stay a week, and yeah, they do spend the time exhausted because they don't have time to recover from travel.

Your very argument about not going to Hawaii is that you can't stay long enough to recover from the flight. Why can't you see the same from your parents' perspective?

If they don't like the city and there is nothing to do there that they like, why would they stay long? And would you really want them to stay that long anyway?

I assume they are saving up the yearly visit to  your place until the baby is born. WHy would they come visit twice--just to see you pregnant?

Once a year is good, and you never know how things change when the baby is born.

My dad lives 4 hours away and I see him every 18 months. He is just a big believer in letting adult children live their lives. It is his generation.

Once a year isn't great, but it isn't total abandonment.[/quote]

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