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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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family invitations
I'm a mother in law. My dil and I get along very well, however when it comes to family functions at my son's and dil newish home, she invites her family but relegates any invites to my family to my son. My son is very controlling. Maybe this is the reason. Now its close to Thanksgiving and I know that if my other two sons are not invited, they won't be there. If they are not, then I'm really torn. I'm afraid mentioning this to my son (or my dil) will be tantamount to butting in! The holidays are becoming more and more stressful for me when I know I should be thankful for family, period. What would you do, if anything?
Re: family invitations
does your son invite who he is supposed to or are the other people just not invited?
your son is very controlling?! what on earth does that have to do with inviting people to a holiday party? is there some other issue wtih the members and that's why they're not invited?
perhaps if your other 2 sons aren't invited you go and spend the day with them. when dil or son asks tell them why.
What is it that YOU want to do for Thanksgiving?
You can't force your one son to invite his brothers if he doens't want to, but it's also YOUR choice where you spend Thanksgiving. So if you want to make other plans, you can do so.
And for the record, my DH isn't controlling, nor am I, but we each handle our own family when it comes to inviting them to our house. Don't read too much into the fact that this falls to your son.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
It seems odd to me that you wouldn't have a relationship with your son where you were able to say, "Hey Billy, Johnny and Steve haven't gotten an invite to your house for Thanksgiving. Is there a reason?"