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I usually visit my family alone because they live so far away and it is hard for my husband to get time off work. I'd prefer if he were with me though.

Usually we're both together, but when I go to visit my dad, its usually over a weekend, and DH works Sundays. So most of the time its just me.

I've never even considered the idea of alone time with my family...I guess when either of us thinks about our families it always includes the other person so we wouldn't want alone time. We each end up with alone time though because we live 10 minutes away from each set of parents and I'll go have dinner with my parents if my husband's working and he'll go stop by his parents if I'm doing something, etc. We don't intentionally plan for alone time, it just happens.

We sometimes get alone time but usually we visit family together. Actually they come over to our place usually so we're always both there. I never even thought to give him "alone" time with his mom. He just always includes me. He does take her out to eat dinner (just the two of them) on her birthday but that's so that they can enjoy dinner without having a toddler to tend to. I'll stay home and watch my son while they have their one-on-one dinner.

It depends, usually DH comes with me to visit my family but on occasion he hasn't; really just depends upon what he has going on at the time. It is rare that he goes to visit his family without me however whenever we are at his dad's house I try to stay upstairs in the morning or go upstairs earlier in the evening to give him and his dad some alone time.

My family LOVES LOVES LOVES the hubby. Maybe almost more than me since it seems they call him more or before they call me! Therefore, the hubby attends all family events. My family constantly reminds me how much they miss him if he's not there.

We typically both go. The only time we do things separately is if Hubs goes home for a family event and I'm on-call for work. Otherwise, we both go. And we usually end up seeing both families (they live 10 minutes from each other). It makes it hard, though, because like @mamamoose said, we sometimes feel like we're getting pulled in a thousand directions. If we come to town and don't see someone and they find out about it, we get grief for it.

My husband gets a lot of alone time with his family on the weekends when I am working at weddings. So usually every Saturday when I am working, he'll go spend the day with them. They only live 10 minutes away.

We only see my family maybe once a month (they live 30 mins away), and so sometimes we'll go see them together and other times I'll go see them on my own.

We usually go together, but every once in awhile it won't work out. For example, tomorrow I'm going to my mom & dad's and going swimming with my 22 month old niece and my sister....he's staying home to do some work around the house. In the evening, we're having friends over for a BBQ and to go see fireworks together. My family loves my husband, so I think they're a little bummed that he's not coming with.

I'm more likely to pass on get togethers with his family than he is with mine. I have a hard time dealing with my MIL.