How to deal with your in laws this holiday season
The holidays are a time of love, laughter and family bonding over heaving tables of home cooked food. Until your mother in law comments on the consistency of your gravy.
I do not have a relationship with my in laws. They live in another country and Skype their son, my husband, regularly. It works this way and we are all better off. But, come holiday time I'm taken back to when we used to attempt fake smiles, Christmas hats and secret wine refills to tolerate each other.
Just thinking about it now makes me feel uneasy, and sad. I wish things were different, but it is what it is.
Watching my friends stress out about the inevitable mother in law's opinions on how you raise your children, cook your ham, make your potato salad and even how you prune your roses, makes me wonder what the best way to create a stress free holiday is.
How do you deal with your in laws? Dodgy family? Drunk uncles? What is your "go to advice"?