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Thanksgiving is a great time to get the family together
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This man refused to let his brother bring his girlfriend to Thanksgiving after she disrespected his wife
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Most people say that spending time with family is important to them
Nowadays, it’s not always easy to visit family even if we want to; busy lifestyles, scheduling conflicts, and, in some cases, distance might make get-togethers rather scarce. However, that doesn’t diminish the importance of family time in people’s lives.
Whether or not people visit family often on the day-to-day, many do during all sorts of holidays and celebrations, such as Thanksgiving. It’s safe to assume that the OP is far from the only one gathering his family in his home to commemorate the celebration. According to Statista’s data, last year, as much as83% of Americanswere planning to celebrate Thanksgiving, mostly doing that in their own or their relatives’homes.
While the holidays people celebrate differ with each family, there seem to be quite a few occasions to get together during the year. Statista revealed that while Thanksgiving is the most popular of all thenational and religious eventsin the United States, it is far from the only one, as Memorial Day,Christmas, Veterans’ Day, and Mother’s Day are nearly equally as popular (according to data from the second quarter of 2023). Father’s Day, Easter, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Labor Day, Halloween, and New Year’s Eve line up next on the list respectively.
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Coupled-up individuals tend to include their partners in family time, too
For those who are coupled up, the holidays tend to be not only a time to get together with family, but to introduce their partner to the clan, too. Discussing the dos and don’ts of doing that for the very first time during the holidays,relationshipexpert Dr. Stan Tatkin suggested that it’s important to talk to your partner beforehand about how you both can look out for each other during family time.
“When the other person has a home field advantage, it’s important that people talk about how they’re going to protect each other, particularly the person who doesn’t know anyone,” Dr. Tatkin said inan interviewwith Insider, emphasizing that that’s the idea of being a couple. “They protect each other. They have each other’s backs, even with people that are familiar.”
Once they reach a certain age, many women—and arguably less frequently, men, too—tend to be bombarded with questions about children, be it from family members, friends, or acquaintances, even. The situation often becomes even more dire after the couple exchanges vows. A journalist and an author, Anna Goldfarb, summed up such situations perfectly,saying: “Nothing could have prepared me for the invasiveness I face about my fertility plans as a married woman in my late 30s.”
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Fellow netizens didn’t think the OP was a jerk for not allowing his brother to bring Lindsay to Thanksgiving
Some people, however, deemed the man a jerk
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