its the family bit
it's OK for the first day or so I visit, but there are only so many stories about people I don't know and things me mum wants to buy that i can listen to
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:10, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Spending it in Boston this year.
The only way I have been able to avoid my wife's parents this year is by suggesting we go to the US to stay with her sister - who I get on with.

As I am not in contact with my parents & sister I find being around lots of my wife's family too much at times. I can cope with my sister-in-law and her husband ok.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:14, Reply)

i knowwhat you mean
my ex's family were a bit intense and numerous. Familes should be kept at a distance.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:16, Reply)

I suppose being away from my family for three months before Christmas helps.
But I love everyone being together drinking Baileys whilst we watch my cousins batter each other with their new lightsabres/guns/remote control cars.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Sun 13 Nov 2011, 10:17, Reply)