[AromeWahmaron]

Watch amusedly.

[uwJzsM8t]

I don't spend much time with my family anymore.

JM

[inhitoemits]

They get a lot rarer when they start dying off. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[andrekuper]

"How do you handle Family Conflicts?" is like "How do you handle a disaster?" Both are too vague to be answered in a useful fashion. Just as you handle a hurricane differently from a tornado or wildfire, so you have to adjust reactions to conflicts within a family based on number of participants, temperament, past history, cause of the squabble, proximity of non-family witnesses, personal bravery, liquor content...et cetera.

EDIT: My family doesn't have many real conflicts, but IIRC our reaction to the last one was to lay low and wait for it to blow over, then pretend it never happened. I say "our reaction" because I was in my early-to-mid teens at the time and didn't know how to react, so I followed everyone else's lead.

[Dastyh]

CO2 fire extinguishers.

ACK!

[alecoplesosse]

I refuse to speak to or see one of my uncles because he's a complete ****wit and tool of his wife. And they both know it, but they won't push at all because they know I'm right and I have the backing of the rest of the family. If I didn't have the backing of the rest of my family...I'd do the same thing anyway and just go into work or stay at uni if I was told I had to see him, because at the end of the day I make my own decisions about other people and whether I want to allow them in my life or not, and I won't bow to others opinions of what I should do without due cause.

Then again, in my case I'm doing this because of a series of incidents that are pretty ****ing serious, if it was just something petty I'd take the piss out of whoever was being priggish and laugh at them until they realise the funny side or get the **** out of the house.

[ensuppono]

[Quiniacab]

It's simple.

I'm the biggest.

I'm also the best trained at hand combat.

I win.


Seriously, we try to keep politics and religion out of the conversations. It's especially "fun" during Christmas as my Sister in law was raised to believe that Santa is, quite literally, Satan. (Her dad (sociology professor) does a lecture on the topic at the local university every year.) And that anyone letting their kids believe in Santa should be corrected.

We have managed to get her to shut the hell up about it since we had kids, though. Mostly by my mom tossing her out a year or two. Fun times.

[9uWzBx4l]

We never had family incidents during the meetings.
Problems may occur before the meeting and what may - and has - happen, is that A says "If B is present, then I won't come" and B says "If A is present, then I won't come".
In the past we cared, but now, we chose one and don't care about the other. If s/he is offended, we just say it was HER/IS conditions, not ours, so S/HE has to face the consequences.

And yes, we chose the one we liked most. Oh, you're offended again... well, try to think about it and maybe... change your behavior?

[Helloheshess]

Your fathers a wimp.

[LomodiorCon]

I feel quite fortunate. We've had almost zero family conflicts. And those minor issues have stayed minor. I even like my in-laws.

[Ruidselisse]

1) Feign obliviousness.
2) Drink heavily.
3) Repeat #2 as necessary.

[HoniSoniproca]

Originally posted by Lorizael
It could be said. But I'd much prefer if you said it with an apostrophe. Unlike you I'm alredy wasted having handed in my dissertation.

[QYD8eQ8F]

Whilst that reply requires no answer...I think I ought to say... It's the truth, and the real answer.