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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she is like my mother, just resolve yourself to the situation.   She will never change.  Consider yourself lucky that she only comes once a year and not during the holidays or the summer.   Mine comes twice a year, during both.  My wife or usually at wits end and on the verge of divorce by the time she leaves. It takes about two weeks to de-stress from the visit.  I just hate Christmas, can't wait for it to be over.  For anyone to visit for that length of time they need to be an utterly self centered person.  There just isn't any way not to know that fish and house guests begin to smell bad after three days and are utterly rank after five.  It's impossible not to know that. They just don't care.  I suggest you get yourself a calendar.  Mark a big happy face on the day she leaves and cross the days off with a big X as they pass.  Order pizza as much as possible - hit the hay at night as early as possible - start going to the gym after work - everything you so should say "hey, we have lives here, how could you possibly think it is ok to drop in for two frigging weeks- ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!  Schedule as many doctor's appointments as possible.  Schedule every vendor you deal with to come during that time.   Get your transmission fluid changed - tires rotated etc etc.  [/quote]

If your mother is having this effect on your family you need to deal with it. Why are you letting her ruin Christmas every year?  Tell her no instead of the passive aggressive bullshit.

And for the people saying it takes soooo long to adjust coming from the west coast, that's ridiculous too. It's 3 hour, not 12. [/quote]

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