Those who live far from their in-laws (at least an hour drive)...

Those who live far from your in-laws, (at least an hour drive) how often do you see them?

Message edited 2/13/2007 4:28:29 PM.

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Is an hour and a half far away? We see them about once every other month.

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once a year if we're lucky

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We are about 1/2 hr away...and you know my deal..

We probably see them every other week...

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We see FIL about twice a month. He's very ill, so we try to visit as often as we can. We see MIL on holidays, birthdays and once in a while in between. They both only live about an hour away.

My parents live 350 miles away, and I feel like we probably see them more than MIL.

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I chose 3-4 times a year, but it might be more like 4-5.. Its not every other month, although I really think it should be, but time just gets away from us.. I think once we have kids we will try to go more often so that his parents can part of their lives.


They live in the Binghamton area - about 4 hours away.

Re: Those who live far from their in-laws (at least an hour drive)...

They live two hours away.

We still see them all the time.

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Posted by leighla

They live two hours away.

We still see them all the time.

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my MIL lives in OH, we see her 2-4x a yr

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Posted by MrsERod

once a year if we're lucky

Re: Those who live far from their in-laws (at least an hour drive)...

about once a month and same goes for my parents/sibling

both live on LI and we pretty much are on LI once a month

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My in-laws live in FL and we see them 4-6x a year. My MIL comes up a few times a year, and we try to go down by them once a year.

But if they are here for a week, we see them maybe 3 days (they usually stay with my SIL).

Sometimes I feel like we spend more time with his family than we do with my own, and they only live 20 minutes away.

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Mne are in FL but they have a small apt. up here too. They are up at least every other month for 2 weeks minimum. When they are up they expect to see the kids every day.

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We're about 20 minutes and I see my mil about once a month.

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Message edited 5/27/2007 4:29:39 PM.

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My FIL is in NH...DH goes once a month, and I go once every other month.

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They snowbird so we only see them at Christmas during the winter and maybe if we can fly down and visit with them during the Feb/Mar time (usually not) and in the summer they live in CT. so we may go up a couple of weekends during the summer and see them.

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DH sees his parents almost every weekend. They live about 30 minutes away.

I on the other hand maybe see them once a month.

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My ILs live about 30 minuites away and I have not seen them since Thanksgiving. DH tries to bring DS to see them at least once a month. They have not seen DS since the day after Xmas.

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4+ hours w traffic
During our engagement we were there once a month, but I have not been since xmas and don't plan on going anytime soon.

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we used to only see them about 2-3 times a year, but since we had the kids we see everyone about once a month. its double for us because they are divorced so we're having twice monthly visits.

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We're in NY, they're in FL. Usually we see them once a year, but we've gone longer.

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I'm the opposite. My inlaws live 5 miles away, but my parent's live upstate, and we see them about 1x every other month.

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Haven't seen my mil in 5 years and I am FINE with that!!

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My parents live an hour from me. I either go visit home (long island!) or meet them in PA (we have a house there) at the very least every 3 weeks. I do not want to only see them once a month. That does not do it for me.

It's hard to not see them and you feel like you are out of the loop. My other caveat (and it may work in your situation) is that I tell my DH that I will go whenever I need to --- he can not (and would not) stop me. SO, I make my plans and invite him. If he wants to or his schedule allows him to come with me -- fine, but if it doesn't I still go. Maybe your husband can make the trip more often to see his mom!