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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]

So, it is just that you want SIL to open her gifts elsewhere. Everyone else is ok because it fits into what you think is acceptable? Personally, I think the thing to do is just go with it, even if you are rolling your eyes internally. Sometimes when families combine, the habits of one set are annoying, awkward, weird, whatever, to the other set. The key to happy inlaw relationships is to not care so much, especially here, when it doesn't actually affect you in any way, except that you find it annoying. If you spend any time at all reading this site, you should be grateful if this is the most annoying thing you need to deal with from your inlaws. [/quote]

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