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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, this would only happen in America. They are your FAMILY. It's food for god sakes. Food is love. I just can't imagine what it must be like be OP. And she/he admits they all have plenty of money.

Some day the grandparents will be gone and dead and I hope you think back on this and feel shame.[/quote]

You've already posted this four times now, we heard you. Bend over backwards to entertain and pay for FAMILY no matter what, check.

You're right, in America people value privacy, independence, and real vacations more than those in asia or Europe. In Asia you pay for your kids your entire life and expect to move in with your eldest son's family and reap the benefits. Hopefully the many strings-attached arrangements don't kill your kid's marriage by then. In Europe, you want to crash at someone else's home for month and recreate your European retiree life in someone else's home and on someone else's dime. Got it.

OP and her spouse need to meet in the middle here, and frankly, having extended houseguests chip in for food is a common sense one.

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I have not posted this four times. I was my FIRST time posting in this thread. I do not think this post was about privacy or independence or vacations. It was about being cheap and it was about valuing family. And being a gracious, hospitable host, which some Americans are very good at. Others not so much.[/quote]

Do tell me what is in the menu for my annual three week stay at your house.
Let me know what the sightseeing agenda is also, I assume you'll be driving me about. Can't wait![/quote]

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