My BIL wants to stay home and have a grocery-store-prepared TG meal. Know why?

[bertha katzenengel]

That sister and her family were to have gone to other sister's family for TG dinner.

Both sisters just figured out why the man wants to have store-prepared TG dinner at home.

So he won't be separated from his 60-in. TV on a big football day. :eyes:

While stammering on the phone w/ each other, one sister finally said to the other, "I think we're secure enough now in our relationship that we don't have to spend every Thanksgiving together." :rofl:

[crim son]

1. As disturbing as I find that, it doesn't bother me as much

as the fact that one of my sisters goes to an in-law's and has a meal that is catered every year. No, it's not envy! It just bothers me.

[bertha katzenengel]

2. I think you win

That IS disturbing. My guilt goes into overdrive at TG because I have rarely gone hungry or lacked any physical need. . . . catered TG dinner just sounds so . . . so . . . classist. (I don't know if that's the word I want.)

[crim son]

3. She married into wealth, and the husband is absolutely wonderful.

But I still don't understand how she so willingly gives up her - responsibility - as a member of my immediate family, to recreate the wonderful experience we had growing up. Me and my ethnocentric ways.

[liberaltrucker]

4. I'm a football fan AND one that respects tradition

Your BIL, IMHO is one self-centered a-hole.
My family has a couple, too. :rofl: