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[quote=Anonymous]I say send DH with the kid, and stay home and read your book.

I am not going to make time around holidays for annoying evenings with my DH's family anymore. Nope. I'm done.

I finally, after about 15 years of spending every Christmas Eve out with them (in an expensive restaurant, that we paid for, with at least one if not two of my SILs rudely treating waitstaff like their own personal servant), put my foot down and said we aren't doing this anymore. There was noise made about me pulling DH away from his family, but DH didn't care and neither did I, and they got over it. Within another couple of years I had pulled out of Christmas day with them as well -- the ridiculous gifting of slippers I won't wear, cheap necklaces I won't wear, books I won't read, etc, does not need to happen. We gave cash, because I was not going to take on buying gifts for DH's entire family and he was not ever going to get around to buying them gifts and wouldn't know what to get even if he did. So he got cash and gave it in envelopes. None of these people need cash. And I don't need a Stephen King book and a pair of cheap slippers. So no harm no foul on that. Again, I was "breaking up the family," and again ... I don't care.

Just say no. [/quote]

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