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Politics and family get togethers sure do have a way of bringing out something else in people. What do you think about OP's holiday rule?

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Anonymous

Sorry for the long comment - but as someone who WAS the child to the oppositional parent- I WOULD have rather not come to the gatherings at all. Every family celebration (minus maybe 1 or 2) was absolutely ruined by my parent arguing about everything. For me, it wasn't easy to have a good time with my cousins, knowing that upstairs my parent is just being so loud and making rude comments to people and bringing up things that just hurt or offend everyone (didn't even HAVE to be politics). I'd go home every time, feeling less and less connected to my extended family because the longer time went on, the more insane the gatherings got- but literally only because of my one parent. Since most of the rest of the family was pretty level headed, they started not coming. One year an aunt and uncles and their kids wouldn't come, then 2 sets the next year. They started having separate celebrations with just my grandparents or whatever- so there could be some peace. Also, I just have to add that the fact she would have split the money between the family and not keep it? Extra not the AH- sounds like she always hosts the whole family and buying food, cooking, decorating, cleaning etc for a whole extended family can be a lot! She's probably putting a lot of time money and effort into this and doesn't want all her hard work to end in everyone feeling bad

Anonymous

i think there’s truth in what everyone had to say here. while i don’t think there needed to me money involved, i do think that could still be a strong boundary that the host sets. if you talk politics, the subject will be changed & if you persist, then you will be asked to leave. like a no tolerance rule! there are so many other things that you can talk about and family time is too important to just choose to not go because you’re hell bent on aggravating others & pushing your opinions on them.