Juggling the holidays with my girlfriend is difficult but we’ve made it work for years. I usually spend Christmas Eve with her family and Christmas with mine. 

This year, my girlfriends mom announced the family would be going to her daughter in laws mom house for a joint Christmas. However, this requires me to fly to another state and as a result miss Christmas with my family. Upending the arrangement we’ve had in place.

I barely know this woman and what little I do, I don’t like. She’s a bigot and extremely religious and I’ve managed to keep our relation civil due in large part to our limited interactions over the years. Now I have to spend the holidays with her family, people I don’t know, instead of my own or my girlfriend’s. 