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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i think visiting elderly mother - you could accommodate your husband's brother and sister in law in a pool house.  If it were not family I would feel differently or if the purpose of the visit was more oriented to the visitors[/quote]

How often are they visiting? If they come this once, does that mean they're coming every other week from now on - or is this a couple times a year? For your husband's brother. For gd's sake I can't imagine telling my own brother he can't stay with me, to go see our mom.[/quote]

No one is telling him he can't come, he just needs to board the dog. [/quote]

Come on. Be reasonable here. Think like an actual person, not like a DCUM robot. It's such an unfriendly thing to do - especially now that there's a pool house.

OP can do what she wants. She's certainly getting a lot of encouragement to stand her ground here. But I would just recommend taking a step back and thinking about whether this is the hill you want to die on with your husband's brother and his wife - coming to visit your husband's elderly mother in a nursing home. Just take a step back and think about the right way to treat this situation.[/quote]

If I zoom out and re-write this from the brother with the dog perspective, I would say "board your dog".  Find a nice place or a pet sitter and choose the PEOPLE in your life over your animal.  Because the dog will be dead in 10 years, but the rifts from forcing the animal on your human relationships when they have made their stance clear will remain.[/quote]

+100000 I love how there is always one loon who gives into anything a rude family wants. I’m not sure if she’s the biggest doormat on the planet or one of the rude nasty people expecting to foist their dog or whatever on someone else.[/quote]

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