Boyfriend Doesnt Want to See My Family for the Holidays
We've been together for 3 years and eight months. He has never spend christmas with me. His situation is a fiddling complicated considering his parents are divorced, so out of the 3 christmas that happen during our relationship, 1 he spend it with his mother and her family unit that live in some other city, the other one he spend information technology with his dad, and the last ane his spend it with his mom and stepdad, he lives with them and she doesn't really care for christmas but they spent it with his stepdad family. The terminal christmas he promised me that the he will spend the next i with me, now that the fourth dimension has come I asked him what's upward and he tells me he doesn't know, he feels that his family that lives in another urban center want him to come up and spend it with them and doesn't want to let them downwardly, but he will practise what he tin to spend christmas with me.
I don't know what to practice or how to react, I'grand very bummed considering he promised me and I dear christmas eve and my family unit has ever been extremely support of him, they have been there for him always, he has a strange human relationship with her mother because she is very cold and doesn't take care of him, she doesn't cook or volition drive him anywhere, she doesn't desire to buy him a machine and doesn't want to borrow her auto to him, so when his at my habitation nosotros ever melt for him, nosotros bulldoze him and pick him upwardly whenever he needs to, I'm a very expert girlfriend to him and me and my family are always in that location for him, much more his own family.
I realize it'due south not the same, and his family are still his family no matter what. Simply it hurts me that after all this time he hasn't spend this important vacation with me, and it seems he will non spend it this yr either or whatever others.
What do I practise? Does this mean he isn't very committed to me?
#ii
8 years ago
I understand your confusion at this, just at the stop of the day, family will ever come showtime to most people.
Yous could plow it into a positive, fair enough yous won't see your boyfriend this christmas, but what about if y'all get married in the futurity? he'll ever exist with yous.
Y'all but need to be HAPPY FOR HIM, any negativity towards him and his situation risks putting him down or even pushing him away.
Of course he is commited, it's just he has 3 different sets of family to see, its always going to be tricky but grinning, because thats what makes him unique. 😊
#3
8 years ago
My brother never spent Christmas with his girlfriend, e'er came home to be with our family. They're now married with 2 children. She was lucky that he drove an hour away to be with her on Christmas day night but that was only in the after years of their relationship earlier they got married. Don't make an effect out of information technology. How would you experience if he expected you to give up Christmas with your family unit to exist with him?
#4
8 years ago
#5
7 years ago
That is complete BS. If he loves yous enough he would include you and take y'all with him. In all these years, youre not good to be with him and his family? Its hurtful, inconsiderate to your feelings and what you lot experience does non affair the most to him. He cares more than nigh what the family feels... when there's a way to make everyone happy...past including yous.
#half dozen
5 years ago
Helpful. Understand your frustration.
#7
5 years ago
I am the boyfriend in this scenario. I absolutely dread the holidays now. My girlfriend of iv years wants me to spend Christmas with her. All of my <email> several states away and want me to visit them this year. Worst of all in this conclusion my Gma has cancer and this might be her terminal Christmas. My girlfriend hasn't gotten to spend a Christmas with me all the same because every year 1 of us had to work. Both my relatives and my gf put and so much pressure on me, and even accept begun to try manipulating my decisions. If anything, all of this has made me desire to spend Christmas solitary and not deal with it. I love my girlfriend and my family, but I am and then frustrated and done being the middle man. I've made my decision to see my gma and relatives, and I guess my relationship will accept to take the accident. Information technology ***** considering no matter how much I talk to my gf about it, she doesn't seem to understand how much this conclusion affects me. I'm the bad guy no matter what decision I make...
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#8
five years ago
Why didn't you ask her to go with you to come across your family, that'due south a elementary solution!
#9
5 years ago
I'm in a like situation. Have been with my partner merely over a yr and we live 4 hrs drivev away from each other. Last yr, she came on a train, "three hrs", and spent Xmas and boxing 24-hour interval with me, and didn't even see her girl, husband, and granddaughter on those days, but this yr, she's on the train and spending Xmas and battle day with them. My thwarting is that her family unit all love me but my partner has said to me, "concluding Xmas i saw you and your family unit and didn't even run into my family unit, i rarely get to see them so just want to spend a quality day with them Xmas day, and your quite welcome to come to the house the side by side morning and bring together u.s. all for a barby. I felt guilty, but thought, fair enuf nigh spending Xmas twenty-four hour period with family who will have no other visitors that day, but why not take me with her, surely she can still take quality fourth dimension with them if I'm in that location, and the family unit has really taken to me. The daughter even sent me a message asking if i wanted to join for lunch Xmas solar day, just despite this, my partner said, "last twelvemonth i didn't even run into my family for Xmas, and i only come across them once every few months, and i spend lots of fourth dimension with you every week and just want an Xmas day with just them. We talked virtually information technology calmly and nicely, only feel just a little hurt, particularly afterward her girl invited me to become there for Xmas luncheon. I experience a adept compromise would have been taking me there and having Xmas lunch, and so for me to drive back home which is just 1 hr from her daughters for Xmas dinner with my family, "mum and blood brother".
#x
5 years ago
I'chiliad in the same situation. My boyfriend never chooses me over his family merely he always says that I'm his superlative priority and he calls me his future wife. Just he tin can't disobey his parents and he still chooses them all the time instead of me because he thinks he has no choice and he is obligated to. I have no family of my ain and all my friends and spending the holiday with their own families and then I'm all on my own this coming holiday. He is not willing to cede spending information technology with his family despite knowing I take absolutely NOBODY. I only desire him to choose me but I can't say it because I don't desire to be selfish and his family unit would hate me if I asked their son to choose me over them. I'm so lone and I feel so abandoned. I don't think he'south gear up to first a new family with me at all. I'm in another land right now and I can't leave due to certain circumstances and he knows that. He's offered to fly me in for the holidays so he can obviously beget flight here if he chooses to but he's so set on spending it with his family unit. I feel betrayed to be honest.
#11
five years ago
Why can't he take you with him to see his family unit?
#12
5 years ago
I am in the aforementioned exact situation. It hurts and then much ☹️
#13
5 years ago
Yous are his family too. But considering you oasis't got a wedding band or perchance aren't fifty-fifty living together, you deserve meliorate than to spend Christmas alone. His family should be making room for you in their lives. I'k in a state of affairs where I've been in a committed relationship for 15 years. Nosotros never get to spend Christmas day together as he has to work, and his workplace is near his parents' business firm so he goes at that place after. Simply I brand very certain that our own dwelling house has a Christmas family unit day either the adjacent 24-hour interval or the one after. If y'all don't go on with his family and tin can't face going with him, make **** sure he makes quality time to spend with you in the post-obit couple of days. If that's besides much for him then I'm sorry chick, only he doesn't care and you'll exist happier with someone else.
#fourteen
5 years ago
same, I dont accept family to spend the holidays with. So out of x yrs I have spent every single i solitary while she goes to he mothers, friends mothers and so on.
I won't even get into how I'm called controlling for voicing my opinion.
I HATE the holidays! This might be the final with her. If yous tin't compromise...don't be in a relationship period.
#15
4 years ago
Exactly. Like correct this minite. Fathers day. My fiance has grown children & I dont mind that they came to take him to the movies merely after the movie he called to say im going to hang out at my sons house. At present I get along with them all & they eat at my place & Ive been to the sons home. However, today i cooked a special dinner & hardly had any fourth dimension to spend with him csuse he slept almost of the day . hither information technology is about 1 am & he still out enjoying his mean solar day. Without me of course. Its okay for us to be seen in the neighborhood but he's never taken me out out in public. I feel alone & Im deeply injure
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#16
4 years ago
#17
4 years agone
I will shortly be in your same boat of spending most holidays alone. My partner has family out of town and most of mine have pasted. I'm thinking of ending my 4yr. human relationship because of this. Some people say go over it but I but keep thinking how nice it was in a past human relationship where we were together for the holidays. I need to accept it or move on I guess. I don't think I can be ok with accepting it and wondering if I'g making a large mistake.
#18
4 years ago
i broke up with a young man of 6 yrs for the aforementioned reason. I grew to resent him, I felt insignificant considering he couldn't even spent one holiday with me out of 6 yrs. I never would have expected him to spent every unmarried holiday with me; I have family to that I need to see, merely would information technology have killed him to say hey, "lets spend every other xmas eve or xmas twenty-four hour period together". Compromise somewhere!!!! if they don't they are treating you like y'all are just dating, you are non a serious partner to them. Move on so! i did, and I don't regret it. I wished I take left sooner. I'm dating someone new correct at present, 6 calendar month only, and nosotros are already talking about how to deal with the holidays....what day we can spend together since he has no family and has to spend xmas eve with his bro, and I accept to spend xmas eve with my family unit, then we'll spend Xmas Day together. Thanksgiving isn't such a big bargain, only i've already invited him to become with me to my sisters if he doesn't program on spending it w/ his one an donly brother. Their parents died yrs ago, he has no close family unit other than his blood brother, so totally empathize that he needs to be with his brother sometime effectually Xmas. Rotate, take turns, whatever....but partner should be compromising to try and spend a holiday with you once in a while. Doesn't have to be every year!!!
#nineteen
four years ago
Ask her to go. Take and include her.
#xx
4 years ago
I'1000 currently in the aforementioned situation and idk what to exercise. I've been my daughter about 2 years now and she's upset that I haven't spent a holiday with her, she always wants me to spend information technology with her and her family but never mine. She hates my dad. My family feels like I'm starting to push them away considering I choose her, just not for holidays because I experience awful my family wants to be with me and I keep spending time with her. I don't know what to exercise, I don't want to lose her. I'm in pieces trying to figure this out. I spend everyday with her at college, merely she wants me to spend a holiday with her. I don't want my family to experience like I no longer care about them. What do I practise?
#21
4 years ago
I have been with my boyfriend for nearly two months. He has yet to fifty-fifty bring up the topic of thanksgiving and I find that to be weird. We are pretty serious. He has met my parents three times already and I have but met his mother and Sister once. He comes from a pretty decent family unit. Seems very family unit oriented and his sister really likes me. Then I am confused as to what's the agree upwards. My friends and family unit continue request me what I am doing for the holidays and I merely don't take a real solid reply because I am waiting on him to bring it upward. I feel he should and that is non my duty to bring it up. Thanksgiving is next week. What should I do?
#22
4 years ago
It is not your duty to bring it upwardly, but it is a good question and one you are interested in hearing the respond besides..
#23
4 years agone
I call back if your instance the only thing you can do is rotate every other year. If she isn't willing to compromise you too ameliorate non get married, cuz the holidays aren't any different or easier when you go married. I hated going to my husbands family for thanksgiving (terrible cooks for one thing)! Merely I did it anyway. Y'all accept to compromise in any relationship. She needs to come tolerate your family unit, simply similar you need to tolerate hers in one case in a while. It's reality, no one e'er loves every person in each partner'due south family. Life would be beatific if all loved and liked everybody nosotros met, esp our partners friends and family. She'due south beingness selfish. I incertitude you lot Dear spending every moment with her family. It's give and take. Demand to talk to her about having to brand compromises, rotate holidays every other year.
#24
4 years ago
I am too the boyfriend in this state of affairs. My parents are divorced and I alive with my mum and sister. Each year a load of my family come downward to spend the Christmas period with united states and it is full of (drunken) slap-up times. My girlfriend has asked me to spend Christmas with her knowing that all my family are coming from a few states away. We have been together for just over 2 years and I spend pretty much everyday at her house until late still that is not plenty - and she was on vacation for Christmas last twelvemonth merely I am expected to drib everything. She thinks I hate her considering I am not spending information technology with her?
#25
4 years ago
What have yous said to her?
#26
4 years agone
I've said that it'south not fair as all my family are coming including my elderly grandparents. And she went away last year and I just had to deal with it. I even offered to spend the evening with her on Christmas Day but that isn't plenty either. I feel like she is controlling what I do.
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#27
4 years ago
Well could you reframe that to "maybe you are assuasive her command you lot because you care about her?"
Would that make it more palatable?
#28
four years ago
I'm in a like situation, but not really sure how to approach it. My swain and I met online and have been together a footling over a calendar month. We've seen each other often though and talked on the phone for hours on days when we don't see each other. I asked him a couple of days ago what he was doing for Christmas. His parents are divorced, so he said he spends Christmas Eve with his dad and brother, and then he and his brother become visit his mom on Christmas Day. He didn't invite me to come with him to either one. Is that weird? I asked if maybe I could see him in the evening on Christmas Twenty-four hour period and he said yep, merely it would exist later than we usually run across each other. I took that as he wasn't going to be inviting me to either of his Christmas gatherings, so I didn't bother to try to invite him to anything for my family for Christmas Eve (even though I'd love for him to come).
Yesterday, I asked him if he would want to spend New Years Eve together if I planned a gather at my house (I alive alone) for a few friends and him. He said it's tradition for him to get to some political party with some friends that he only sees on Halloween and New Years Eve each year. Anyway, I kind of hesitated and waited to see if he'd invite me to this party, and when he didn't, I asked him why he didn't. He said it was just kind of a matter he did every year. I asked if it was a guys' nighttime or what---he hesitated simply then said it was a guys night. I asked if the other guys bring their girlfriends and wives and he said "non usually". He did say he'd come up over in the mean solar day fourth dimension and spend every bit long as he could with me earlier he had to go to this party. I experience very put off by this, every bit New Years Eve feels like a couples kind of holiday. Should I just get over it, or does anyone think I have a right to exist upset? My friends have pretty mixed opinions nearly it, and then I'k looking for an unbiased opinion hither!
#29
4 years ago
Well I'm agape I can but provide a biased opinion having experiences of dating websites, when I felt I have been given the common cold shoulder in coming together for special occasions shut friends or families. So I would exist a little suspicious nearly whether he was existence 18-carat in his responses to your questions. People who run across each other on dating websites are notoriously fickle because there is such easy availability of other people. I would be thinking that maybe she has invited someone else to share the special occasions with him only then I'm a suspicious kind of person. What are your feelings on the This as y'all know him much better than I do?
#30
four years agone
For some people family unit is important. Maybe for your bf also. Don't have this personally merely probably he feels similar the right thing is to exist with his family and show the respect he should show. Mayhap his family unit asked him to be with them and although he planned to be with you he felt the correct matter was to exist with his family similar a way to show he respects them. Do non emphasize this too much mayhap. If he chooses to exercise then respect it and just focus on the skillful stuff of the human relationship. I tin't be sure almost his reasons but anyway don't effort to push him, simply let information technology go and focus on having a good relationship. That'south just my opinion though and I could exist wrong.
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