"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> DJS0302 wrote:
>>> You have to learn to say NO. Unless you are underage, no on can
>>> make you spend time with others you don't like.
>>
>> Well all the other relatives were there to so I almost had to go.
>
> That's just silly. Say politely, "No thank you, I appreciate the
> invitation
> but I have other plans."
>
> Jill
Jill,
Exactly right you are.. nobody puts a gun to these people's heads. They go
because, much as they complain, they are getting some kind of payoff from
it, or else they wouldn't do it... even if that payoff is merely someone
else having a nice opinion of them.
We live a mile from my MIL and stayed home for Christmas.. so yes, it can be
done.
lucy