Alone on Thanksgiving?

[Guest guest]

I have been in a rut lately, allowing nadas drama to really take a

toll on me emotionally...I am now running into the question of what

to do on Thanksgiving. For every holiday in the last few years, she

has forced a different new man on us, and sometimes even his family.

This Thanksgiving, she has a new boyfriend (after a messy breakup

with her ex about three weeks ago) and he is coming to dinner at her

house. I feel like its an intrusion on our family, (which consists

of nada, my nana and papa and my 11 and 18 year old brothers) as

always, and I'm beginning to get fed up with it. Honestly, I don't

want to go to dinner at her house if he is there, because I am not at

all comfortable with her forcing a new guy on us again, and on a

holiday nonetheless. My other options are to spend Thanksgiving

alone, or to go to my boyfriend's aunt's house, where I feel equally

uncomfortable. His family is very " normal " and has a big, fancy

family dinner around a nice formal dining table and I'm not used to

all of that. I grew up poor and bounced around all over the city

with my nada...Basically in a completely different world than my

boyfriend. He has lived in the same house in the suburbs his whole

life, and basically had a storybook childhood. I always feel like his

family can see right through me...Like they're a different, " better "

kind of people than what I come from. I'm beginning to feel like

I'll never fit in. So really I just wish I could just sleep through

Thanksgiving and forget all about it.