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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems so overblown by everyone. SIL had no idea what she will really do for the next 10 years. [b]She could have just mentioned “we may travel next year.” [/b]Grandma can see the kids at other times. You can do Xmas on a different day.

This is sort of funny to me, because I just told my MIL on Xmas day that we will be traveling for Easter so I plan to host Easter at our house the weekend before. I wonder if some family member is posting about how horrible I am?? I doubt it, because none of us are wackadoodle.[/quote]

The op was explicit that SIL said this was the last Christmas because they would be vacationing next year and in the future moving for are.  I’m not sure why people are inventing other conversations when that’s what the op is reporting was said.  She was the one who was actually there.  [/quote]

Yes, I’m saying SIL made this overblown assuming an accurate narrator. SIL could have dialed back the dramatics, because she has no idea what might happen. But I also think OP is making this overblown as well. [b]Grandma has lots of ways to see her grandkids.[/b][/quote]

And they have 364 days out of the year to take vacations. :roll: Grandma does not actually have lots of ways to see all of her kids and grandkids together. She has literally one time of year that happens. Christmas or Christmas Eve. That’s it. And maybe Christmas doesn’t mean anything to you non-Christians but it means a great deal to my devout mother.[/quote]

And?  Your mother doesn’t get to run the entire family, just because she’s old and devout. She’s not the Queen if England. [/quote]

Only on DCUM is inviting your children for Christmas "running the entire family." Especially when the family already accommodated by celebrating on December 23 so SIL could have both Christmas Eve and Day with her family.

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An invitation is something that you can accept or decline.  This is a demand.  [/quote]

Where is the demand? The post said the SIL announced they would be going on vacation next year and for the foreseeable future and that her mother was very sad. [/quote]

Exactly.  There are a bunch of dysfunctional people from dysfunctional families projecting their own BS on to OP.

But then again, that's DCUM for you.  I don't know why anyone bothers to post.  It's always a contest to see who can twist OPs post the most and project all kinds of crazy assumptions on OP to make them the "bad guy".  [/quote]

If DCUM is so awful, why are you here? Why don’t you make it your New Year’s resolution to leave if it is so bothersome and useless. [/quote]

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