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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This year I have to spend both Thanksgiving and Christmas with my ILs.  I need to grow a spine and tell my husband NO MORE.[/quote]

I've had to spend both holidays with my ILs for the past several years. [b]I told my DH recently just because my family lives far away doesn't mean I want to spend both holidays with his family every year. [/b]He said I don't get to prevent him from seeing his family.  I said most couples split the holidays. He can decide what we do for one holiday and I should be able to decide what we do for the other. He said if I see my family another time of year, I don't also get to complain about not seeing them for the holidays.  Yes I do.  He doesn't get it. His parents are divorced so he's trying to hog the holidays with both his sets of parents and I get to spend the holidays with zero of my family and have zero choice of what I want to do?  WTF?  His parents chose to get divorced. They should be the ones giving up a holiday every year, not me! If I put my foot down, he'll want to take the kids. How do I ever get a holiday with my kids without the ILs?[/quote]

This is my problem too.  My family lives far away, we visited in the summer, we don't go for holidays because tickets are expensive and they're not all in town at the same time like ever.  But I don't want to spend two long weekends in the course of one month with DH's family -- and I LIKE them.  I'm going to try to plan something with my extended family over christmas next year.[/quote]

So, PPs, did both of you know that your DHs were uncompromising dicks when you married them?

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