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[quote=Anonymous]DD has a big event tomorrow and both DH's and my family are in town. Our parents are very different but can manage to act like civil adults on the rare occasion that they're all in the same place together. Yet, DH is a ball of stress about the whole thing, completely freaked out that someone will say or do the wrong thing (in his eyes) and "ruin" the event.

This all stems from some wedding planning drama from eight years ago! Everyone else has moved on (or appears to have) and gotten over it but he is completely freaked out that either his mother will say/do something embarrassing or my mother will say something offensive to his. In reality, I'm sure it will be a perfectly pleasant event with all focus on DD and none of the crap he's stressing about will actually happen. Yet before each event we always have this huge build up of anticipation that something will go wrong.

Honestly, other people (my siblings, his father) can sense his tension and it can get a little uncomfortable bc people are wondering why he's acting so weird. he is also trying to keep everything separate, except for the event itself, so he does things like his parents saw DD this morning, then my parents saw her this afternoon, but he oesnt want them in the house together.

Anyone else deal with anything like this? Any suggestions? I have been very upfront with him about how I think he's acting stupid and immature and if anything is likely to ruin the event it's his ridiculous behavior, but I can't seem to get through to him. I really don't want to spend the all of DD's future big events wrangling a husband and grandparents to make sure everyone acts appropriately. Ugh.[/quote]

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