If you have wife and kids and her family lives nearby shit can get outta hand. I could potentially have 7-8 Christmas events to attend. 1 event for both sides of her extended family and then 1 event for both sides of my extended family (4 altogether). Then 1 event with her immediate family and 1 event with my immediate family.
My wife doesn't really work but if she did then we would also have 1 work party for each of us.
Finally we want to have a Christmas event for just our own immediate family with our own kids. Trying to buy gifts for all these people and also help out with the food for each event can be insane. Add to this that most families don't completely get along so mix in a little personal conflict and you got yourself a gong show of a month!
Hell just getting the kids in the car to get somewhere is hella stressful. Yall single
don't even know.
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