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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get your beef with this at all.  They're family, they're visiting from someplace that is pretty far to travel from with the whole family for just a weekend.

If you don't like being with them, set up itineraries for sightseeing that they can do on their own.  If it's too hard for your child, continue sending her to camp for the day. 
 
If you don't like to cook, ask if they will help with the meal planning and cooking and keep the meals simple.

It's one week, not a multiple weeks.

Maybe this is a cultural thing to not be gracious to family visits.  I don't understand it and it would not fly AT ALL in my culture.

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I agree with this. I find it incredibly rude of op and others here to find sending them to a hotel and flatting out refusing their to host so rude. But then, you can take someone out of the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto out of people....[/quote]

+1. This is family not some random acquaintance.  My family, my father, both brothers and their wives and kids will be visiting and staying with us for a week for Christmas.  I'm very excited about the visit, my DH not so much but he is willing to be a gracious host b/c that's what he was taught growing up - to be gracious to one's guests.[/quote]

This is where you put the marriage first. A week is a long time, especially relative to square footage and bathroom space in your house. If my DH would be put in misery, I'd respectfully tell my father, brothers and SILs to shorten their visit or to stay part of the week with other nearby relatives or in other accomodations. "Fish and guests smell after three days," said Benjamin Franklin.

Listen to Ben.
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Good advice![/quote]

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