“There is no way I am spending another Christmas with your family,” complained Darla. “In the past five years we’ve never spent time with my folks on any of the holidays. You know how I feel about this!” Ken slammed his coffee down on the kitchen table. “I am so tired of having this argument….
Our friends Becky and Thom decided early in their marriage never to ask for financial help from their parents. They understood that this meant they would need to learn to live within their means, even sacrificing when necessary. At times this also meant not sharing their financial struggles with their parents because their parents tended…
My husband’s family isn’t like mine, and because of that I worried that they wouldn’t like me. When Derek and I were dating, we visited his family in Odessa, Texas a few times, and I’d seen them on occasion when they made trips to see Derek in college. For a few hours, I would smile…
I lowered my voice hoping my parents couldn’t hear me. “Why can’t you just spend some time with us,” I hissed at my husband. Just looking at him infuriated me. “They’re only here for three days and you only have to suffer through being social for one of them!” “I don’t want to go into…
This past Summer my family and I made a trip to South Mississippi to visit Stephanie’s, my wife, grandmother. I’d been to her house before, but had never spent more than a couple hours at a time there. This trip was different. We planned on spending 3 days and 2 nights in this small farming…
