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Dear Prudence Santa Baby A grownup throws a tantrum over changing Christmas traditions. Plus, Dear Prudence handles your holiday hassles. By Emily Yoffe Posted Thursday, Dec 22, 2011, at 12:02 PM ET Get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week; click here to sign up. Please send your questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Due to the holidays, there will be no live chat with Prudie the week of Dec. 26. She'll be back to chat live on a special day: Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, at 1 p.m. at Washingtonpost.com.* Dear Prudence, Since my brother and I were little, we've spent Christmas Eve at home with our parents. When my brother got married, he and his wife continued the tradition and came over to exchange gifts. But a couple of years ago everything changed, because my sister-in-law's parents and siblings came over saying they were just there to drop off gifts, but they stayed the whole evening. I was incredibly uncomfortable, because they're complete strangers to me (except for one of the siblings, whom I knew from high school and never got along with, which only makes it worse!). The next year, my sister-in-law invited all of us to Christmas Eve at her house, so yet another year I was uncomfortable. Now she plans to host again, and not only am I dreading it, but I'm so mad about it that it makes me cry. Christmas Eve has been ruined! Am I wrong for not wanting to spend the evening with my brother's in-laws? Should I just learn to accept it, or should I stop celebrating Christmas Eve ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate "We Own Wall Street": Spitzer Proposes a New Movement To Stop Corporate America's Worst Behavior The AT&T Merger Would Have Improved Mobile Service. The DoJ Was Wrong To Kill It. Rachel Maddow: Here's Why MSNBC Is Not Fox News for Liberals	Advertisement
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