Family coming up to stay for prolonged periods of time?
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How do other family’s work with visiting each other for prolonged periods of time? Wife's sister and brother in law arrived on Friday with three kids 18, 17 and 15. Oldest kid and both adults drink a fair bit.
They turn up Friday empty handed as usual and expect waited on hand and foot for breakfast, lunch and dinner until Monday. They don't want to go out for dinner or spend any money doing anything so wife and I run around cooking and cleaning up after them. Really pisses me off but wife is to polite to say anything. It would be fine if it was reciprocated but it's not when we go down and visit them as we stay with wife's parents who live close to her sister. They are not short of money just very tight so apart from spending money on fuel to get up here have not spent a bean or helped in any way all weekend.
This is the total opposite of my family staying with each other as we all help out and bring booze or food.
They turn up Friday empty handed as usual and expect waited on hand and foot for breakfast, lunch and dinner until Monday. They don't want to go out for dinner or spend any money doing anything so wife and I run around cooking and cleaning up after them. Really pisses me off but wife is to polite to say anything. It would be fine if it was reciprocated but it's not when we go down and visit them as we stay with wife's parents who live close to her sister. They are not short of money just very tight so apart from spending money on fuel to get up here have not spent a bean or helped in any way all weekend.
This is the total opposite of my family staying with each other as we all help out and bring booze or food.
Had a word with my brother in law a few years ago about it and nearly got into a fight and he stormed out so knows my feelings on it. I was then the big bad b
d as it was at father in laws 70th (they had left by then) and I had to apologize to keep the piece.
Normally it's only once a year but they have been up three times this year staying for three or four days at a time. This is because they wanted free treatment and expect my wife to do it after working all week. He's a big fat 18 stone greedy bd who always has to have the most expensive meal, extra pint etc etc.
On the plus side the kids are getting older so won't be coming up much longer and father in law will only be able to drive the distance for a few more years which means wife will travel down to see them more often.
d as it was at father in laws 70th (they had left by then) and I had to apologize to keep the piece. Normally it's only once a year but they have been up three times this year staying for three or four days at a time. This is because they wanted free treatment and expect my wife to do it after working all week. He's a big fat 18 stone greedy b
d who always has to have the most expensive meal, extra pint etc etc.On the plus side the kids are getting older so won't be coming up much longer and father in law will only be able to drive the distance for a few more years which means wife will travel down to see them more often.
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