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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Single aunt here- I don't want to vacation with my brothers kids either. That isn't a vacation, it's a week of them expected me to be a babysitter because they work so hard. Yeah I chose to be child free for a reason and have zero desire to go to OBX when I can be in Belize instead. I go home and visit very frequently (always me flying home, never ever them making an effort to visit me in 10 years) and when I'm home for my 3-5 days I love being an aunt and help out where ever and however I can. But no way am I going on screaming kid vacations to some place in a Carolina where I'm expected to babysit all week. Nope! I'll visit and love my nieces and nephews once a month (a 3 hr flight away) on my schedule. When I get two weeks off, I'm going on s safari. Not being cramped in your beach house from hell.[/quote]

Preach it sister.[/quote]

You visit your brother once a month for 3 to 5 days at a time, on YOUR schedule?  And bro is cool with that?

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Not a PP but if I were her brother I'd be fine with that.  She seems like a very reasonable loving involved aunt.[/quote]

I love my family.  But I wouldn't want any of them showing up at my house once a month for days like that.  Especially unplanned and not on my schedule.  This is my home, not a hotel. Kwim?

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Amen! We only want family once a month or every six weeks, if that; and we alternate DH family and mine. No way I'd want my single brother around for 3-5 days every month! No, thanks. And I like him and so do my kids...but that is WAY too much.[/quote]

If they are willing to do the same for us in their neck of the woods...of course they can stay.  If not.  Hotel.[/quote]

It's not even that, it's just we like our "regular" life and don't want to disrupt it all the time for visitors. My ILs don't get this. I've tried explaining, I don't even want George Clooney or Oprah as a houseguest once a month![/quote]

Absolutely.  Anyone with an ounce of consideration "gets" that.  We enjoy have overnight guests maybe quarterly (at most).  A solid week is fine but I can only do that for certain people and not multiple times throughout the year.

It just isn't what we are used to.  We *need* our privacy.[/quote]

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