AITA for missing Christmas and doing my own thing instead so as to avoid conflict, drama and to keep the peace?
Haven’t seen my brother in 15 years and he’s decided to show face at Christmas this year with a girl who brings out the worst in me. I do not like the way she makes me feel after the things she’s done to me and I’ve said already if it’s what makes him happy then so be it but I cannot be around them.
He too has caused me a lot of trauma over the years with his lifestyle and compromising situations but neither he nor mother acknowledge it and I’ve said it’s time she spend Christmas with him to make up for the lost time anyway.
I’m being painted the AH because I want no part in it but I just can’t understand why I, after years of having to please both of them, can’t have my boundaries respected now that I’ve put some in place and choice not to partake understood?
