Not go. If your family causes you anxiety, stress, etc. you are not a bad person for choosing your own way to spend the holidays. And if you’re ever in the area and have nowhere to go, we are the build a bigger table family and always have an extra plate.

Treated as equal. You don’t have to force yourself to be around people who don’t respect you, have harmed you, or honestly for any reason you don’t want to be around them. The number of people I’ve heard joking about needing alcohol to survive their families is ridiculous. Here’s your permission to