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You dread coming to holiday get togethers?

Me? I don’t have any.

Mother in law, she’s nice but nutty as a payday

Brother in law’s adopted son- he thinks the whole 5 lbs of hashbrowns in the giant serving platter is his personal plate.

couple others that show up occasionally

None. I love my family and I enjoy seeing my siblings but most importantly dad enjoys seeing his children, our spouses and his grandchildren. The holidays should be about family, not pettiness and bickering.

Frankly nobody short of my three sons.

There is this really odd lesbian couple a few miles down the road...

I give out their address to people I don't like.

We stay at home for thanksgiving, just the two of us. No real family issues, but trying to visit everyone made thanksgiving an exhausting nightmare. Thanksgiving is calm and peaceful now. Highly recommend.

...and a man named Bub.

I dread seeing about 75 % of mine. Maybe more. Since the parents are gone I pretty much have boycotted all family holiday events.

Mine are all really down to earth, a pleasure.

Wife’s family Christmas gathering, her brother is about the only one I can take, can’t stand the rest. A bunch of goofy bastards.

I generally assume it's me that everyone dreads, but also can't wait to see.

mine are all gone.

Yup, got one.,...

Quit doing the holiday dinner dash years ago. Thanksgiving wife and kids bring dinner to the cabin. Christmas Eve at moms, Christmas Day at ours. Skip the “cousins dinners” once most of my cousins kids decided to become tweakers. Wife cut loose of her toxic family 2 years ago. Bunch of country club trust fund babies and married for money sisters and aunts. Life’s too short to spend the holidays being miserable or some Jerry springer holiday special.

I have zero doubt that I have been labeled "that" guy before, and I am totally fine with that.

Luckily I have next to no family and what I do have, all live far away.

Ha, I'm the one that is dreaded to show up so I tend to cut my visits very short. Eat and run.... My brother, his wife and three kids are scum and they know that I know it! The perfect example of white trash: drugs, alcohol, every one of them had been arrested multiple times with one still in the pen for robbing a bank. All have dropped out of school but still know more than anyone!

Over twenty years since I've been anywhere near my sister for a holiday.

There is one single cousin in my extended family no one cares to have anything to do with. Other than that there are only a few minor disagreements and hurt feelings that come and go.

Not getting into the details but Im seriously envious.

My only related family here is my mom and dad.
(and wife, her sister and kids, we all get along)


A few distant relations but they don't come over very often.



My dad and I are the [bleep] but never at dinner.

used to enjoy thanksgiving with my parents when they were alive. we'd all go to our camp and have a nice laid back country visit. one year my oblivious brother decided to bring his wife and 7 kids. god knows why he thought that 15 people could function in a small 3 bedroom cabin in late november when 7 of them were rotten fuggen brats from like 4 marriages. lets just say they never did that again.

now its just me, wife and kids and occasionally a girlfriend or boyfriend. after a big breakfast we go out back and shoot about 500 rounds of various ammo all afternoon and then pig out and everybody is passed out by about 7.