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I cancelled Christmas.
Nobody likes my stepmother except my father.
My mother hates my stepmother.
I work for my father.
I like my mother, but she drives me nuts.
My (31-year old) brother was whining that we weren't opening presents at 8am.
My cousin & his girlfriend, both of whom I like, may not be coming into town until 3am Christmas morning.
My stepmother isn't wild about these gatherings.
My wife was crying because 12 people were coming and the only ones who'd be happy to be there would be my sister and my cousin's girlfriend.
My grandmother died a month or so ago, and this is my grandfather's first Christmas without her in...sixty? years. He and my sister and my aunt are the only people we're at all inclined to see right now.
And my wife and I have had our own issues that no one except my father and stepmother know about, and they only know because he provides my insurance.
I'm not going to chose between a Christmas that excludes one of my parents and a Christmas that has everyone on tiptoes because my parents are "bearing" it & my MARRIED ADULT brother is whining because we don't act like we're 6.
I've sent out an email and talked to my brother, my sister, & my aunt. My wife talked to my mother. It's done.
For god's sake, someone tell me we're right.
Nobody likes my stepmother except my father.
My mother hates my stepmother.
I work for my father.
I like my mother, but she drives me nuts.
My (31-year old) brother was whining that we weren't opening presents at 8am.
My cousin & his girlfriend, both of whom I like, may not be coming into town until 3am Christmas morning.
My stepmother isn't wild about these gatherings.
My wife was crying because 12 people were coming and the only ones who'd be happy to be there would be my sister and my cousin's girlfriend.
My grandmother died a month or so ago, and this is my grandfather's first Christmas without her in...sixty? years. He and my sister and my aunt are the only people we're at all inclined to see right now.
And my wife and I have had our own issues that no one except my father and stepmother know about, and they only know because he provides my insurance.
I'm not going to chose between a Christmas that excludes one of my parents and a Christmas that has everyone on tiptoes because my parents are "bearing" it & my MARRIED ADULT brother is whining because we don't act like we're 6.
I've sent out an email and talked to my brother, my sister, & my aunt. My wife talked to my mother. It's done.
For god's sake, someone tell me we're right.
