His or Her Family

@jewl1126 (102)
United States
May 6, 2009 7:26am CST
Are you more involved with your partner's family (your in-laws)or with your own family(siblings, parents)? It seems that I am always busy with my husband's family and my family gets left behind. Holidays are always crazy trying to catch up with everyone in his divorced family, that my family always gets pushed to the side because he won't say no to an invitation. How do you keep it balanced?
2 responses
• China
6 May 09
so i think you should driving the topic to your family in front of him.to remind him your feeling.maybe he can change slowly.or you can do it yourself.you do it,then tell him.so he will do it together with you i think.more active.maybe he want you do that also.every forgot some thing sometimes.all you can do is remind him.help him correct his error or we call it forfot.put your family into too.
• United States
6 May 09
We definitely see my husband's parents more often. They are much more local, so it is convenient to get to their house. My parents still work, his parents dont. That makes a huge difference too! For holidays we keep it simple. We dont yet have our own children, so we dont worry about all of the details. For Christmas, we get together with each family - his parents, my Dad, and my Mom. For the other holidays we use the 'whoever asks first' theory! If someone asks us to dinner for a holiday, that is where we go. IF anyone else asks, we say 'sorry, we already have plans'. So far it has worked really well for us.
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