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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Sorry to miss you this thanksgiving! As you’re figuring out already, travel with babies and young kids over the holidays is stressful and difficult! I don’t blame you for not wanting to do it, as I’m sure you aren’t trying to blame us for not wanting to do it two years in a row since we made the flight last thanksgiving. Enjoy your baby and maybe you’ll be up for flying down here for Christmas!”[/quote]

Yes, that would be a perfectly reasonable response but the problem is it won’t be accepted.  We are basically bullied that we don’t want a relationship, don’t care about them, are hurtful for something like this, or they will dig up some perceived slight from years ago and say this is just another example of that —- that’s what is exhausting to deal with and it’s like they are incapable of seeing how not reasonable they are. [/quote]

It's only exhausting if you care. If you drop the rope, you won't be exhausted. If you stop giving them so much mental real estate, you won't be exhausted. If you stop trying to control their responses and the way they feel, you won't be exhausted.[/quote]

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