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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be fair, YOU said YOU don’t want to do anything on the Mother’s Day. Does that mean everyone else just needs to stay holed up at home in their rooms?[/quote]

We will have NO plans unless I declare that it is time for a nature walk they everyone will hop to it. Everyone will just sit with bated breath waiting for something to happen on the no plans until there's a plan Mother's Day.[/quote]

Or everyone putters about and enjoys each other’s companionship when they’re relaxed.  There’s a lot of middle-ground between shunning OP and attaching themselves to her so they can shadow her all day long.  I don’t think OP has even decided that she wants to go for a nature walk, she just wants the freedom to do so.  I don’t think she plans on subjecting her family to a forced march, but she might like them around to invite to join her in a walk or other activity.

Moreover, in any relationship, it is expected that sometimes you will do things for other people that you might not otherwise do.  I suspect OP, like most moms, goes out of her way the rest of the year to do things for the rest of the family (like having her MIL spend the night or supporting her kids’ sports interests), so asking them to spend 1/365th of the year going along with what she would like to do doesn’t seem unreasonable.[/quote]

1/365. The martyrdom is strong with this one.[/quote]

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