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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here, 
At Christmas morning my fiancé and I open gifts to each other. In the afternoon, his family comes over and bring gifts. I’m talking like 50+ gifts no exaggeration. It takes a while to even bring it into the house. We sit together and open gifts. Around 2 gifts will be for everyone each. Then SIL will receive like 95% of the gifts. So then it becomes more about her because we’re all together watching her open them while we’re done. These gifts are basically all from her parents.

I just wanted to know how to put it to them in the future of us doing gifts separately. I think we’ll just do Christmas dinner from now hoping they already gave her her gifts. I am fine with gift giving but it does take a while to watch someone open that many gifts. If it was a child I would not care. I just find it awkward. I think it is the amount of gifts we have to watch being opened that takes awhile. [/quote]

I think of you say come for dinner that’s fine, but since this is their “family Christmas” they will still open gifts. Should they get together with SIL a different day to open gifts? Do they give you all bigger gifts and SIL lots of less expensive ones? If it’s grossly uneven, I’d have fiancé say mom, it’s a bit Awkward watching Larla open so many gifts. Do you think you could just pick a few favorites for her to open at our hisie? Don’t expect this to go over well. Otherwise, you can stop hosting, but seems like they like their kids to own all gifts together. [/quote]

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