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- Thread starter jesserin
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DisneyBunny
Active Member
Really, it's just about not being selfish.
My girls love me because I don't try to make them love me. You really can't do that. It doesn't work.
That's terrible!
They couldn't include your mother in their plans? Or at least understand that you want to be with her?
They do sometimes, but they grumble about it. My MIL just don't understand that even if none of her boys were there, she'd still have her husband and she wouldn't be alone. But if I'm not there for mom, she's totally alone. We don't have any other family that lives close, plus they all have their own families, and she's always a fifth wheel.
DisneyBunny
Active Member
Actually, Marc does most of the standing up for me. They're his parents, and he knows that it'd be easier to hear things from him. It's just that they don't want to listen.
Why am I always the problem child :lol:
Nemo14
Well-Known Member
Somebody has to be!
Uponastar
Well-Known Member
I'd give them an either or. . Either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. . .and tell them that the other would be spent with your Mom. And maybe swap it the following year.
DisneyBunny
Active Member
That's actually what we had last year... and it worked okay. It's just this year she's throwing us all off because she wants us all to go 3 hours away (and back again) to see his grandmother ON Christmas day because she got guilted last year for not being there.
Uponastar
Well-Known Member
This is what I would do. . .
I'd tell her that, because you need to spend time with your mother, you and Marc would be happy to make that trip on another day during Christmas week, but it won't be on Christmas Day itself.
DisneyBunny
Active Member
By Squishie!
Uponastar
Well-Known Member
Bye Fishy! :wave:
DisneyBunny
Active Member
Sigh.. it doesn't work like that in their family. Everything has to be on the day itself. It works like that on other holidays too... birthdays, St Patrick's Day, Memorial Day...
Oh, and did I mention that I didn't get to be with Marc for any of his birthdays until last year too?
She's a weird weird woman... I often wonder how my Marc ever came from such a screwed up family.
I wondered that about my DH also. His family was weird. Belonged in the funny farm.:lookaroun :zipit:
Uponastar
Well-Known Member
Wow! Screwed up is a nice way of putting it. :lookaroun
Everything is on the day itself because everyone does what she wants. I wouldn't do it, Bunny. I'd tell her that we are going to visit Grandma on a day that no one else is there. . .on a day that she would otherwise be alone. She can't kill you! She'll have to accept it!
DisneyBunny
Active Member
Sigh... we'll I've got to head out. I'll be on again this afternoon!
Bye everyone!
Bye everyone!
Uponastar
Well-Known Member
I hope it helped to vent, at least, Bunny! :kiss:
Uponastar
Well-Known Member
Susan, are you still here?
I just wanted to say. . .
It's hard to be young. All that silliness. . .
It's not worth it.
Why can't people just be happy to share the time together?
Why can't they remember that time is fleeting and we should be grateful for every moment we get to share?
I just wanted to say. . .
It's hard to be young. All that silliness. . .
It's not worth it.
Why can't people just be happy to share the time together?
Why can't they remember that time is fleeting and we should be grateful for every moment we get to share?
I forget that sometimes myself. Like today my DD wants to go to her 1st slumber party. I don't want her to, just in case something might happen to her. I don't feel over pretective but I guess I am when it comes to my DDs.:zipit: