Our in-laws leave today and my kid is kind of relieved. She loves them, but also she’s grown up in an isolationist nuclear family mode (much like pretty much all desi kids here), and after a while she simply wants to go back her nuclear family. Unlike us, who grew up much more in a joint family setting so we are the opposite that we feel sad about them leaving. No one’s right or wrong – just how upbringing affects your thoughts growing up. (Before you go nuclear, I have desi friends who grew up in India in nuclear families who are exactly like my kid, so this is not a country issue).