I don’t go home for the holidays anymore. Way too stressful with family. Should I feel guilty?

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No

I'm sure you didn't cause your family any stress growing up. So why should you have to deal with their drama now that you are an adult?

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lol @ bah. Every child causes stress growing up

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It dependa

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I had some major family drama last Christmas. I’m skipping thanksgiving for Europe this year- no regrets and my parents totally understand

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A trip to Europe

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My wife and I️ both have divorced parents that live in different parts of the country. Since we’ve been married we’ve not traveled to any of them during the holidays (too much friction to try and fit it all 4 stops in), but the door is open for any of them to come our way. Has worked out great and led to a much more relaxing situation for us.

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Sounds sustainable, let's see how this works out long term.

What's your alternate plan?

That's fine. Not like you are sitting at home

My guess is no you shouldn’t.

At the end of the day regardless of reasoning, you do have to simply do what you want. We only have years on this earth, why not spend it doing something you actually want to do.

The only reason I'm going this year is because my sister is pregnant and she's the only girl out of boys, so it's a big deal.

I'm hoping later in the next 2-3 years I can take my parents on a cruise or something. But spending every holiday together every year is now seeming less and less likely.

Op: Are you single or traveling with SO?

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