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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is not the right venue for a sympathetic ear. Remember, DCUM is filled with women just like your SIL. they are going to empathize with her here, and not you, because they hate their ILs too.

OP, is your mother/extended family less well off than SIL's? If so, that is your answer right there. SIL is not trying to have middle class Christmas while all the school Joneses are Christmasing in Palm Beach. There isn't any way to slice it, you've lost, a primary feature of UMC people is that family only matters when the family is equally rich or willing to spend to look it, or richer and willing to share fringe benefits (like invitations to ski or beach houses). Then, its "family is everything" otherwise, it is "family is awful, unsupportive and dysfunctional and we cannot bear to spend another holiday with them."

Good luck, [/quote]

Sadly spot on. Vapid social climbers act like associating with middle class let alone working class family is noblesse oblige. Once maybe twice a year you’re a backwater charity case disrupting their carefully curated status-obsessed brand. A buzzkill who reminds them of their roots; the low stock proletariat they really are beneath their wannabe bourgeois patina. But boy do they ever love a rich grandma and grandpa. Visits, trips, frequent FaceTiming, heck, maybe even give a baby the middle name of a rich grandparent to score some estate planning points. While a working class grandma should just literally drop dead.[/quote]

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