AIBU to not want to see my in laws so often? When my first DC was born they insisted on coming round every weekend to see us (they live 25mins away). It seemed quite a lot but I assumed it was just because a newborn baby was exciting so I went with it. 3 years and another baby later and they're still requesting to see us most weekends. If we haven't seen them one weekend there is definitely an expectation to see us the next. I get on with them well enough (though less so since having children partly because of this but other reasons as well) but I'm really getting fed up of this expectation that we have to see them so often. Yes I know I should be grateful that my DCs have grandparents that want to see them because I know there are some with the opposite problem but I feel it is really starting to impact on our family time (and by that I mean me, my DH and DCs). We very rarely get to go out for family time just the 4 of us because most free days seem to be taken up seeing the in laws. I think to me part of the reason it seems so excessive is because I only saw my own grandparents once every 3 or 4 months because they didn't live near us and that was normal to me. It has started to cause conflict between me and my DH because he doesn't have a problem with it (he just sits there on his phone quite happy that he doesn't have to do anything) and it's got to the point where I've started saying no I don't want to see them this weekend because there are other things I want us to do but this doesn't go down well. So, AIBU or is this expectation to see us so often excessive?
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