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In reply to the discussion: Grandma's Thanksgiving Invitation Dear Family: [View all]Greybnk48
(10,167 posts)61. I'm 71. I've cooked TG dinner since I was 19, and have had so many drunken everythings:
my mother, my first husband, 2 FIL, 1 MIL on drugs, and cousins, kids, nieces and nephews with drug and alcohol problems. It's a family tradition, on all sides! Consequently, I/we don't serve alcohol on holidays, or very rarely and just one drink or so. My husband and I have drinks a few times a year. It's fun, but my current husband also went through treatment 35 years ago, and after watching what it has done to so many others as well we choose to keep it at arms length.
Also, no one seems to mind since many are in recovery, but like the grandma in the op, I don't care if they do. My house, my rules.
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I had a Niece stay for a couple of months while she moved to a nearby city.
Farmer-Rick
Nov 2019
#33
We all have some of those relatives, or might even be some of those relatives.
keithbvadu2
Nov 2019
#29
I'm 71. I've cooked TG dinner since I was 19, and have had so many drunken everythings:
Greybnk48
Nov 2019
#61