Question by justmee_333: Am I wrong to not want to travel for Christmas?
I am in a spot with my family. First, a bit of background. My partner of 20 years and I split a few months ago and our daughter and I moved into a new house. I had wanted to spend our first Christmas here. My brother and sister wanted to come over for a day. Well, I work 50-60 hours/week and am still trying deal with where to put stuff in a place that’s about 1/3 the size we’d been in. I decided I just couldn’t get it pulled together here.

My sister, who has no children, lives an hour away from me. I was hoping we could have it there, but my brother, whose children are grown, instead said it will now be at his house which is several hours out of state. Our sister has too many housepets for his liking, and his home is a veritable mansion.

Personally, I don’t want to do this traveling. My daughter is gone for 3 days on the opposite end of the state with her dad’s family. The brakes are going on my car, and I can’t get them fixed in time. Where we live is experiencing deadly cold and storms all week. I don’t think it’s safe for me to travel. Plus daughter would have approximately 1 hour to unpack and repack, then be on the road for hours again. She doesn’t want to travel any more either. Like me, she’d wanted to spend our first Christmas at our house, together.

I mentioned this to my sister last night and she blew a gasket, hurling all sorts of insults and names my way. I would love to see my siblings, but the thought of all the travel is completely taking any joy out of the season. Am I really being that unreasonable to want to spend my first Christmas as a single parent at home with my child, who wants the same?
Forgot to add that we’ve also been dealing with frozen water pipes, and I’m afraid to leave the place unattended for 2-3 days. If the pipes burst, the results will be devastating. There are no neighbors that will be around that would be able to check the place for me.

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