Family members around the holidays

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  1. Corky Bucek

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    :roll: the NBA one is spot on with him.
     
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  2. COVIDiskilingme79

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    Do you let your grandma hold your kids?
     
  3. Daniel Ocean

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    Are you Latino? Is she? What’s the big deal of allowing her to continue a tradition from her childhood? It’s not like she wants you to change everything. She just wants to give you kids gifts.
     
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    Always fun when this happens
     
  5. Gallant Knight

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    My grandma wants my kids to open presents a day early wow what a cunt
     
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  6. Eathan Edwards

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    Is it not normal/common to open some presents the night before and then the majority on Christmas Day?

    That was the case for literally everyone I knew growing up.
     
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  7. Struggler

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    Grandma would rent a community center for Xmas eve dinner. Gifts were exchanged and opened.
     
  8. Funshot Residue

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    Firmly team grandma here.
     
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  9. Capstone 88

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    There’s gotta be more to the story
     
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  10. buckwild

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    Neighbor across the street came over this morning with presents for our kids. I told her to walk her ass back across the street with those presents...the fucking audacity to ask for the kids to open presents today and not tomorrow.
     
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  11. The Blackfish

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    I would assume so based on previous posts but we’re all waiting to find out Bruce Wayne
     
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  12. WillySaliba

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    It reeks of estrogen if you ask me. This is higher level women shit. Not sure a I heard one time in my life when a guy was mad about an opening a present.
     
  13. FourClover01

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    Bruce Wayne to his Grandma.

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  14. ~ taylor ~

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    Why not?
     
  15. Shawn Hunter

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    Only presents I ever got to open early were when my mother's side of the family gathered at her parents' house on Christmas Eve. Would have done the same with my dad's sad of the family but we went to his parents on Christmas day.
     
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  16. Bruce Wayne

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    My side are just habitual line-steppers as I've documented elsewhere. Healthy boundaries don't exist to them so if we dare not go along with everything they want us to do then we're all of sudden the bad people.

    My wife never did it growing up and she didn't want to start doing it for our kids for whatever reason so when I was asked I said no.
     
  17. Lyrtch

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    batman has never been known for his emotional intelligence folks
     
  18. Bruce Wayne

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    Never had to navigate holidays with family either
     
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  19. Eathan Edwards

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    I did not exactly grow up in an economically booming area - but pretty much everyone got 1-3 presents the night before and then the rest on Christmas Day.
     
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  20. ~ taylor ~

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    Ahh, so you're wife just decided her family traditions are more important than yours. Mine does that, too.
     
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  21. Snakes

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    I often get overwhelmed and stressed during the holidays. Pleasing your whole extended family along with keeping the Christmas magic alive for young children can be really difficult. Sometimes I allow that stress to boil over into monotonous things like that. I feel like that could be what’s going on here.
     
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  22. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

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    I mean I get what you're saying but I feel like this is you being very stubborn about something silly. We rarely opened presents on Christmas Eve but have before and it's not a big deal to me either way.
     
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  23. Bruce Wayne

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    And as a quasi-update to my stuff on the private board, things between my wife and family degraded to the point where our therapist is recommending we cut off all contact with them so I'm just thankful that I'm at least getting them in the same room for more than 5 minutes tonight
     
  24. ~ taylor ~

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    We always opened 1-2 the night before. It was usually pajamas or blankets or something related to sleeping that night.
     
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  25. The Blackfish

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    Best of luck man
     
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  26. ohhaithur

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    Hopefully you can understand why we were piling on without knowing the context

    Best of luck man
     
  27. bro

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    My FIL just argued for 90 seconds that “mean,” as in the math term, was spelled meen so he could play it as a word on scrabble. Was very satisfying for him to find out he was terribly wrong.

    that’s the extent of the drama
     
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  28. Bruce Wayne

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    No worries friend
     
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  29. Daniel Ocean

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    my wife is Mexican, my son-in-law and daughter-in-law are Latino. They all celebrate the 24 and give out the gifts at midnight. That’s why I asked Bruce Wayne if his grandma was Latina. Letting her give the kids their gifts on the 24th because that’s a tradition of hers seems like a tiny thing. I said it a while ago itt but I think sometimes we’re the assholes.
     
  30. Clown Baby

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    Bruce when he finds out that there’s no gifts for the kids to open on Christmas morning:

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  31. AbeFroman

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    Try to flip this into a "birds aren't real" conversation.
     
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  32. Hoss Bonaventure

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  33. Clown Baby

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    They can’t stop you from order a steak and a glass of water and slopping it up
     
  34. mizz1439

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    I have an awful/crazy aunt (uncles recent 2nd wife) who claims to be allergic to garlic. I always cook the meat and make sure to “forget” about her “allergy”. Reactions range from rinsing off a steak in the sink to storming out of the room.
     
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  35. bro

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    Just tried to tell me “amend” has two Ms in it
     
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  36. jbr

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    I don’t think he’s cheating/arguing, I just think he’s dumb.

    Or thinks you are.
     
  37. Owsley

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    I don’t have kids, but holidays can still be stressful as fuck for a variety of reasons. Thank god for weed gummies.
     
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  38. bro

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    Oh I’m aware
     
  39. Lyrtch

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    fake allergies drive me insane when you're cooking for people

    friend is "allergic" to fish, but quite regularly eats certain fish dishes and obviously just has a learned taste aversion to certain kinds
     
  40. jbr

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    While not food related

    At least 80% of old southern women are allergic to cats
     
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  41. Lyrtch

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    yeah people who are allergic to certain pets but in no way actually allergic also sucks
     
  42. Redav

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    That's the move I would go with that information as well, completely ignoring it.

    "Guess you're not eating!"
     
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  43. Dr. Mantis Toboggan

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    I think your aunt might be a vampire
     
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  44. Nug

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    Sister nug has decided she's gluten free again. I was cooking seafood linguini for everyone and said OK, you need to go get your own ingredients because I've already bought everything. Surprisingly this went OK.

    She then proceeded to cook her lentil pasta with butter. Had bread with dinner. Also a beer.
     
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    GOAT
     
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  46. bryix

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    Nothing to add really, aside from I'm doing too much. I cooked breakfast (minus biscuits - mom brought those, thankfully) for 16 this morning and I'm currently cooking a rib roast and about to hot smoke some salmon. already smoked a pork butt to accompany everything for tonight on Wednesday.

    I made a lemon caper dill sauce and a horseradish creme fraiche and pickled red onions a moment ago.

    I only got 5 hours of sleep last night. I guess I'm ranting about myself here. All in the name of not eating another fucking ham.
     
  47. Owsley

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    I’m ready for the eggnog to start flowing and for this thread to get really good.
     
  48. Hoss Bonaventure

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    You gotta try and eat it real fast before they kick you out
     
  49. AbeFroman

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    So random. I wish we had video for the Karen thread.
     
  50. Bruce Wayne

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    Edible has been consumed. I'll see you all on the other side
     
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