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[quote=Anonymous]Mine just left today after a one week visit.  When they are here, I drink every single night.  Normally I only drink on the weekends or not at all.  They like to sit and visit every night.  I just can't do that.  So I stopped.  I do it for a little while, then I get busy cleaning and organizing, then I go to bed.  Everyone seems to have adjusted.

When they're here, I also take a lot of walks, runs, naps, and run errands.

The thing that's helped me the most though is to stand up for myself more.  My FIL is constantly trying to get me to eat or drink.  It's a control thing.  I used to take a little bit to be polite, but now I just say, "I can't, sorry, too full!".  For some reason it was really hard for me to do this over the years.  He likes to try to get me to eat junk candy with him so he won't be the only one.  This year when he shoved Mike and Ikes in front of me and said, "I know you like to eat these too!", I said, "I would never eat those."  It felt great.  [/quote]

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