DP's uncle and aunt are coming over from Canada and are staying with us for about 10 days over a 3 week period. We've been looking foward to this, but MIL has now hijacked the visit and announced she will be coming over from Cyprus for 2 weeks, and intends to stay with us while uncle and aunt are with us. This will mean she will be on the sofa bed in our lounge for a week while aunt and uncle are in spare room. Despite DP doing his best to try and persuade MIL to stay with other relatives for at least a week out of the two she is going to be here, and especially when we have other guests, but she just mutters about how she will just have to get a hotel if we won't have her. She is so manipulative. I have put up with her long visits on 4 occassions now - the worst being when DD was 5/6 weeks and she came for 2 weeks and never once put a cup of tea in front of me but expected me to make lunch, dinner and wash her clothes . She wears at least two outfits a day and can only wear something once before it "needs" washed. That visit nearly killed me as I was so sleep deprived, DD was very unsettled and I was struggling to cope. Anyone got any constuctive advice about how to deal with this? DD now 18 months and is going to run rings round her as she is really nervous around small children, DP is very understanding, but I just want to punch MIL and she is not arriving for another 2 weeks! Rant over.