Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> > ospam (DJS0302) wrote:
> >
> >> Had to spend Christmas Day with my sister, whom I don't like; her
> >> husband,
> >> whom
> >> I don't like; and their cats that I'm allergic to.
>
> You have to learn to say NO. Unless you are underage, no on can make you
> spend time with others you don't like.
Yup...life is too short to waste time with unpleasant people, especially
family members.
I don't get the concept of having to put up with rude or unpleasant people
"even" if they are family members.
Those that say you *must* spend xmas or whatever with family come what may
are simply self - flagellating fools, gluttons for punishment. Of course
they can then make a big deal out of being the poor widdle victim and they
can whine and groan here on Usenet or wherever. Such people need to grow a
backbone and *grow* up.
It's passive - aggressive and immature *in the extreme* to set one's self up
for a bad time and then sail onto a public forum and carry on about it (IIRC
one person here who wouldn't shut up and stop trolling about their "evil"
stepmother...it was entertaining in a sad kind of way. Makes one wonder who
is more "evil": the stepmom or the person who insists on blathering on about
such private matters in public... :-).
And having to talk about "the need to vent" on a Usenet group such very
private personal matters is simply just schoolgirl silliness...
--
Best
Greg