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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm amazed at the attitudes that MIL is only the husband's responsibility.  MIL birthday should be on the calendar and its just being decent not to schedule anything and expect to go to dinner.  How do you want to be treated as an in-law?[/quote]

I’ve been married for 20 years and I don’t know the date of my MIL’s birthday — although I do know it is the same month as mine. He handles his family’s birthdays just fine. I expect my own child to handle my birthday. But I’m also really direct and tell people what I would like to do (with appropriate notice). And I’m not going to be hurt if my kid declines to bring my grandkids to something with 24 hours notice.[/quote]

Same. After 25 years I can tell you the month of my MIL’s birthday but not the exact day. There is no way I would be attending a birthday dinner for DH’s side with our kids without him.  We aren’t that close.  I would not give this a second thought.

At this point my kids my old enough to go on their own and I would likely give them the choice to rush after the dentist or come to the other dinner their dad planned at a later date to celebrate their grandmother with our family.   That’s what they would pick. This is your husbands problem. He should have rsvp no for all of you right away. [/quote]

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