I was curious to get other people's opinions on this as I am arguing with my husband about this again.
His parents live quite far away, too far to just pop up for a visit and even a weekend visit isn't really worth it as we would spent most of the time travelling. So whenever we do visit it is for a holiday, a week long visit. We can't stay with them so we stay at a near by caravan site.
We are on a low income and this is our only holiday and we can barely afford it. If we weren't going to see them we wouldn't be going on holiday as it is really not something in our budget.
We have just been to see them in April but they are already on at us about when we will be visiting again, despite me saying we can't afford to. We get a huge guilt trip laid on about how they never get to see their grandchild.
My husband's view is that his mother becomes depressed about now seeing her grandchild and would should put every bit of spare income and overtime towards going to see them a second time this year. He points out they have even offered to pay some of the costs.
My view is that that earn significantly more than us and are very able of booking a holiday and coming to visit their grandchild here if they wanted. They have come here before but have said they wont again, as it is too expensive and takes up their annual leave. It is obviously far easier if we come to them.
We don't have enough money for a second holiday and them offering money makes no difference to that as they have offered money for things before, promising it after we book it. So we book it and never see the money. So I don't believe them when they offer anything.
To add to this I am pregnant and am not going to be happy to spend hours in the car for something that is not a holiday for me and my son is autistic. Last time we went he was miserable and didn't sleep or eat, he hates being out of his routine.
So who is being unreasonable?