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[quote=Anonymous]He does know you aren’t having a good time/“doing something you enjoy”, he is just acting as though he doesn’t in order to avoid needing to compromise about how to spend time. It’s basically the vacuum for a Christmas gift mentality. You deal with this by setting expectations around the holidays at the planning stage and articulating what you would actually like and compromising with one another (with one another is key, people who try to compromise with the in laws and their parents wind up endlessly miserable). “Jim I don’t want to travel at thanksgiving this year, could we plan to see your family at Christmas instead/ Sure Jim we can do your aunts party but on Friday let’s take the kids to *scenic walk* and have a quiet day”[/quote]
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