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My inlaws only live about 10/15 minutes away so we see them once or twice a week. We usually go see them because we live outside of town, so we stop by when we go into town to grocery shop, go to Wal Mart, etc. We live on a lake so in warmer weather, they come to see us more often but now that it's cold, we go to there place. It's been working out pretty good so far!
My MIL lives about 20 minutes away and my parents are about 45 minutes. We see my parents probably once a month. And my MIL it kind of depends. Sometimes it's once a week lately its been every 2 or 3 weeks because we've been buzy.
We're lucky if we get once a year... we usually go to them because they are pretty far (minnesota) and we live in loft with no dining table, so it's weird. We love it when they come though, but it's just easier for us to go to them!
My parents though, they come all the time. They bought us our couch (a pull out) specifically so they could come and crash. My parents are pretty easy to entertain so I don't mind!
I want to move to MN when my parents retire to Thailand... the thought of being far away from ALL of our parents really terrifies me. I like being close to my parents/ his parents/ any parents!
Well my family doesn't live close but we probably get together with my mister's dad about once a month for dinner in town and then we drive out to his place for holidays and other random get togethers that he throws. It's about even I think. I definitely do all the visiting for my family. They never come here :(
I am currently living with my inlaws, so I see them every day. Thank goodness everyone gets along great!
His mom came up 4 weeks after the wedding. It was *way* too soon to have a houseguest for a week!
His family has been really great about visiting (2xs) considering the ample distance (750 miles), but we've been down there to see them at least 5 times since Mr. DG moved up here. It helps that so many of our friends are in the Bay Area, so we love going home!
my inlaws live in the house directly behinds us... about 50ft or so..... i last visited them at Easter :)
my FIL's live in Connecticut; we are in Ohio. They visit us one to two times a year and we go out there two to three times a year!
His parents have never once visited us. We always go to see them. They live about 50 miles away. My parents live 25 miles away and we seem them all the time. We go to their house and they come to ours.
We live about 15-20 minutes from DH's parents/family and about 45 mintues from my parents. We see my parents about once or twice a month and probably a little more with his family just because he has a huge family so there is always stuff going on.
Well, my FILs live about 10 minutes from our house so we see them quite often. When I say quite often I mean at least once a week or more. I don't even see my own parents that much (they live about 30 min away).
-Bella
We're trying to be better. WE love visiting his parents, but since they are retired and my fi's job was taking up so much time, the past 2 years they have been coming to see us more, but now that my fi dosn't work weekends, we have more time to go to them.
They visit about twice a year and we visit them for either Christmas or Thanksgiving. However, we're expecting our first child, so I think the number of visits might be about to increase significantly!
They NEVER do. Maybe once a year. And FI's brother never ever visits. We've lived in the city for four years and he's visited twice. They only live 2.5 hours away by train. I try not to mention it too much because I think it makes FI sad :o(
My parents visit pretty often, and my sister does too. In fact, she will be here this weekend (with her boyfriend) for Halloween and the marathon :o)
My ILs visit probably every couple of months. They live 4.5 hours away, so they usually come to town either on a drive to visit other relatives or for sporting events. I like seeing them, but we live in a 1-bedroom apartment, so it's hard when they come to visit. We give them our room and we end up splitting the couch/camping air mattress.
My mom rarely visits our place, we usually go there. She only lives about 20 minutes away, so we never have to worry about spending the night or anything.
Both sets of parents come visit when they're invited :) We're lucky/cursed that both of our parents live in the same county in Florida, so when we go home to visit, we can see them both. We'll usually do something the six of us too, and we've been having Thanksgiving together (usually his parents come to my parents house, but this year it's switched) since my husband and I first started dating.
We just moved to Atlanta, so they're about a 12 hour (if you drive like my parents, which is stopping all the time for gas/bathroom/food/other time wasting nonsense) drive and a 2 hour flight away. We've been here for 3 months and each set of parents has been up twice.
My mom has been up once by herself, and his mom is coming up by herself next month.
I'd prefer it if his parents didn't visit as much, because they don't travel well together AT ALL, and snap at each other the whole time they're in town. EW.
ILs visit at least 2x a year... and we get out there at least 1x a year (they live in PA and we're in CA). My parents usually visit one month... then we visit them the next 4-6 weeks after.
My MIL doesn't pop over too often, but my FIL likes to do random drive-bys while he's "on his lunch break." It's SERIOUSLY annoying, especially since he doesn't call, he just randomly shows up when he feels like it!
My FILs are a couple of hours away -- we visit them every few months.
my fil's live a half hour away. we see them once a week or once every couple of weeks, depending how busy we are.
His parents visit us about once a year and we visit them about 3 times per year, usually he'll go up once or twice additonal without me. There is a 7 hour drive between us but we tend to go to them more because they have an extra bedroom, live on the coast and the rest of his family is nearby. We also have a second bedroom/office which worked well when his sister and her boyfriend visited us for the first time in 2 years but his parents travel with his brother who is disabled and needs more space. We see my parents about once a year together and I go alone once, visiting my parents requires a plane so it happens less frequently and they have only come to us once in 3 years because it just makes more sense for us to visist so we can see the rest of my family too.
We live about 2 miles away, so we see them at least once a week. Normally we go over there since their house comes with dinner and free laundry facilities.
My inlaws live about 30 minutes away, and we haven't seen them much, lately. I'd say once we are less busy, it will be more like 1x/week. I think it's been hard on them now that they don't see him as often, but they also moved from 10 minutes away to 30 minutes away, so I don't feel like it is *just my fault for being so busy w/ grad school + work.
We're a flight away from my MIL, and as much as I love her, I'm glad she only visits once a year :) My MIL is very difficult to get along with when she's out of her element. We live in a city, and she's grew up on a farm and only loves 20 mins away from her parents. And when she's away from home, she get kind of grumpy, actually. At first, it really bothered me because she would literally have no fun when she came to visit, but then I came to terms with the fact that this is just how she is, and she won't change, so we have to adapt when she comes. We usually plan to stay in a lot and just "visit" because that's when she's happiest.
But yeah, she comes to us once a year, and we go to her about twice a year.
My FILs live about 15-20 minutes outside the city. They almost never come into the city and I can count on 1 hand the number of times they have come by our place (usually very briefly) since their son and I met. We go out there about once a week or so, sometimes once every two weeks when school and work are particularly busy. If we visit any less then that we start getting phone calls demanding we visit. i don't mind visiting them so much since my FMIL is helping with the wedding (mostly by talking things over with me, but that's better then anyone else!) and they have cable and a DVR- which they use to record shows we like. We used to go there to do our laundry for free, but our new apartment has a free washer and dryer, so we no longer do that.
My dad lives about 3 hours away and my mom lives about 6 hours away. We see them each about twice a year, usually with them coming to visit us, but not always.
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How often do you FILs/ILs visit? Do you wish they visited more OR less?
I've been wondering about this a lot lately, as we visit them WAAAYY more than they visit us. We live about 4 hours away by car/train. It's definitely bothered me over the course of our relationship. I really, really like my ILs, so I guess if this is the only thing that bothers me, then I should feel pretty lucky. :)