Should I invite parents for Xmas?

jackieb

Joto wrote: »

Maybe they went out last year because they couldn't face Christmas Day alone with just the 2 of them?

That's what I was thinking. And maybe they couldn't afford to invited everyone out with them as well as it's usually horrendously expensive to eat out anywhere on Christmas day.

bluenose1

Back to original question. If it was me I would ask your mum and dad. If I didn't I wouldn't feel comfortable at all over Christmas and would feel really uncharitable.

There again I would also take my kids to see my OH's parents. Life is too short for falling out, though I accept there are exceptions to that rule.

If I held a grudge I wouldn't be speaking to some of my immediate family, but can honestly say I feel better in myself that I haven't done that. There again I have read stories on other threads were family have been physically abusive and I can understand why they would fall out.

neverdespairgirl

blue_monkey wrote: »

Because to me it is. I've never had anyone I want to speak to 3 times a day on the phone.

My husband is the same really, as soon as he was able moved out of home and was pretty much left to get on with things without help.

Of course, things could have been so different but they aren't. However, I intend on ringing my children every day, at least once, when they have leave home.

It's not about help, though. I like them both, and we're close, so I enjoy speaking to them.

And sometimes I ask for my Dad's help on work stuff, too. That's usually email, though.

I speak to my siblings less often - more like one a fortnight each, but then I email & text more than I do with my Dad.

I can easily chat for an hour on the phone to my Mama, but my Dad treats phone conversations as a way of getting over necessary information in a minimum time. He acts as if it's costing him £1 a word (-:

CH27

OP have you decided what to do?

POPPYOSCAR

blue_monkey wrote: »

Because to me it is. I've never had anyone I want to speak to 3 times a day on the phone.

My husband is the same really, as soon as he was able moved out of home and was pretty much left to get on with things without help.

Of course, things could have been so different but they aren't. However, I intend on ringing my children every day, at least once, when they have leave home.

I agree. I find that 'weird' as well. Each to their own though.