She Wants To Cancel Her Family Vacation Because Her In-Laws Are Following Her On The Trip And She Wants Time Away From Her Husband’s Parents
This woman’s husband has a great relationship with his parents. In order to be near him and his other siblings, his parents relocated from across the country.
Since his parents live in the area, they are able to babysit their children three times each week. So, she and her husband see his parents on a weekly basis, and they sometimes spend time with them on the weekends, too.
She’s greatly appreciative that her husband’s parents have been able to watch their children so often, and they make sure to pay his parents a little bit of money each month.
However, she’s begun to feel overwhelmed over time because of how often his parents were around.
Unfortunately, her husband’s parents don’t have friends or other relatives that they can visit, so this is a lot of the reason they hang around so much.
For the most part, she is okay with them coming over a couple of days out of the week, but when it’s more often that, it gets to be too much for her to cope with.
Sadly, she doesn’t get to see her family as often because they don’t live close by. She obviously misses them dearly, and she and her husband visit her parents once or twice a month.
“My parents suggested a family trip to their home country next year. My siblings, our families, and I all agreed to go. When my parents-in-law found out, they also told us that they would be going (they come from the same country). So, they booked the exact same flight. They’re going because we are going,” she said.
When she found out about this, she expressed her concern to her husband that his parents might try to tag along with them during the trip.
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Her hope was that this vacation would be time away from his parents. Her husband agreed that it was possible that his parents would stick by them during the trip, but he said that he couldn’t tell them not to come.
He told her that his parents were already organizing things to do on their own. He tried to assure her that they could plan activities to do without his parents, and he predicted that his parents wouldn’t follow them around.
“My sister asked my father-in-law what their vacation plans were. And, surprise! My in-laws have the same planning as us. They will visit the same places as us. Not the whole planning, but a lot of overlapping with our plans,” she explained.
After she learned that her in-laws’ travel plans mirrored theirs way too closely, she informed her husband about it, and he hadn’t been aware of it.
But her husband didn’t seem as concerned about this as she was. In response, he said that she shouldn’t be concerned about it, and they’d make sure to stick to their travel itinerary and not pay attention to his parents at all.
“My sister jokingly told me that I can’t escape from them. I really want to cancel the trip now,” she shared.
However, her sister didn’t agree with calling off the trip. Her sister pointed out that their parents were really excited for this vacation, so she suggested that she just deal with it to make their family happy.
Then, her sister continued, telling her that she’d be a jerk to cancel the trip simply because her in-laws were trying to tag along.
A while later, she found out that her husband had shown their travel plans to his parents. At the time, he claimed that he didn’t think it was a big deal because his parents repeatedly assured him that they wouldn’t follow them around.
His parents said that they’d only plan to get together with them sporadically throughout the vacation.
Apparently, her in-laws are now going to hang out with her family for the Chinese New Year, which falls during their trip.
Now, she and her husband can’t switch the day of their flight. When they bought the tickets, they were a good deal, but now the flights cost more than $1,000 a person.
Because they can’t fly out on a different day, she has decided to change their travel plans. She hasn’t told her husband this idea yet, but she feels like he’ll be on board since he is a pretty relaxed guy who goes with the flow. Plus, he understands how much this situation has been upsetting her.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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