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I have family spread out all over the place, and there’s an expectation that I’m going to use precious time and money to visit, but there are places I want to go, too. They don’t travel because this one’s too old and this one has a baby and so on, which I understand, but I also find it frustrating that my travel budget is getting eaten up by these trips.
Is anyone else in this situation? What are your tips for balancing it?
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I’m in a similar spot. My mother finds travel exhausting at her age, and my siblings and I each have really limited vacation time.
Last year, my partner came with me to visit my mom, and we tried a family + personal itinerary. What helped was that we booked a hotel near her so that she wouldn’t feel she had clean her place for us. We came by in the mornings to pick her up for low pressure outings, like visiting a local winery, taking scenic drives, and trying out restaurants.
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