Who else is dreading holiday QT w/ the fam?

[Anonymous]

At least your kids are small enough they can sleep on the floor. After reading this I'm glad my ILs limit visits to 2 hours, 3 tops. Every time they visit it's like Christmas, with a phoney celebration and presents, even if there is no holiday that month, to pretend everything is joyous all the time.

[Anonymous]

OP, do you do this every year? As in, every single year your DH gets is way? Stop. Right now. Tell him no, this year, you are staying home with your little family and establishing your own traditions and having a stress-free holiday.

Or a stress-free as you can with two small kids. But you get my point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here... If it were up to me I would not be going, but DH is adamant that we go because it is very important to his parents to have all family under one roof, which includes sleeping there as a "family tradition". They had fantasies about their kids and grandkids celebrating Christmas together since their kids were little. This has been the source of many arguments between DH and I and he has pretty much begged me to just do this for him, so I do, but I hate every second of it.

So you don't love your husband enough to suck it up and deal with it for a couple of days instead of arguing and bitching about it. If your husband is "begging" for this family time why would you put minor discomfort over something that is this important to him?

[Anonymous]

Wow do many bitches on this thread