When my inlaws come to visit they stay a week, and my fatherinlaw's wife does NOT like me at all. ( I speak my mind, and she is an 86 year old Lady) She has dementia, and the last time she came to visit, she walked into my bedroom and came over to my side of the bed and touched me to wake me up to ask me where she was.

I am an incest survivor, and that touch made me freak out like never before.
I could not spend any more time in my house during their visit because I was crying constantly. She triggered flashbacks and physical sensations that I could not deal with.

I told a friend of mine what she had done, innocent as it was. My fatherinlaw's wife has no idea of my trauma. The friend offered to let me stay at her house on the premise that her cat was dying, and that she did not want to stay up all night with him by herself, in her state of pre-mourning. Plus, her cat may start to choke, and someone should be there beside him to clear his throat in case he can't breathe. We were going to take 2-hour shifts all night.

The inlaws took that lie hook-line-and sinker. They were very understanding, and so I got the rest of their visit sleeping in my friend's house, safe.

If this scenario would work for you, please use it with my compliments. No charge. If you don't have a friend's house to use as a refuge, there's always Comfort Inn. The lie will still work, and the cost of a motel is more than worth your sanity.

Once they get to your town, count the hours down until they leave.