Had to post to ask all out there a question. I need to know when our special days or moments in life became the property of the collective mass ie our so called family and friends. My wedding anniversary is coming up DH and i dont get to spend much time alone work patterns and lack of child care ect. My less than supportive parents are going to take my dc overnight (THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED) the idea being to let us go out. Here is the problem we DONT WANT TO GO OUT. We want to spend the night alone and child free in our own home. However no one seems to get it i have lost tract of the amount of times i have had to explain myself and tell people why we dont want to go bloody out. It would appear we are just not making the most of this fab opportunity so i have been told. My mother even likes to tell me how important it is to out together as a couple and we should make more of an effort. She has no sense of irony. So i would like to know do others have this problem of ownership over their own time, special moments in life or have yours like mine being hijacked by the moral majority.