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Your daughter, newly-engaged, I assume is looking forward to Thanksgiving with her fiancé's family? She has already accepted that invitation, she has no excuse for changing the arrangements. Tell her it would be bad manners to cancel her plans (by implication, it is bad manners for her aunt to try to persuade her to do so; but you don't have to mention that unless you want to). She sees plenty of her grandmother and has no basis for guilt.
If you were planning anyway to go to MIL's for the holiday, go, guilt-free, as a kind, mature person whose husband would like to be nice to his mother. You'd already made the mental effort required to grit your teeth and face putting up with the outlaws all day, so why waste it? Your SIL can stage whatever little drama she likes, you don't have to join in. Don't let her derail your good intentions.
I speak as someone who thoroughly enjoyed the few blissful years when my MIL wasn't speaking to me (she does tend to take these things literally), so I know how the heart sinks at the thought of days like this. It won't be fun, but you can rise above it and it'll make your husband proud of you.
I'm lucky in that I live away from family and it's just my mom and me. My dad was in the Air Force when I was growing up, so we could never be around other family at holidays anyway, so the particular "day" has never meant a lot to my mom, brother or me. Too bad so many make it an unnecessarily guilt-ridden, stressful time.
Many years we went over the day or so before Christmas and drove back home early Christmas morning to see what Santa left and enjoy the day with my family. No guilt, I wanted my kiddos to enjoy both families and I loved seeing their faces when we got home! Helped keep Santa magic going a year or so longer...lol! Christmas Day should be spent where you want to be and for us that is home with all my family.
Guilt is such a control issue and I never bought into it. In an ideal world we do things (like visit family) because we want to but sometimes you just know it is the right thing to do. Nothing is going to take the joy out of my holidays. Your SIL is a pill and I would ignore her completely.
The best gift we can give our kids is flexing on holidays to reduce unnecessary stress for them.
I don't think it is fair to continue to suffer thru holidays to make others happy and it is okay to bow out. If MIL is still "with it", she knows why you don't come, SIL knows why you don't come....it's okay.
It's okay to make other plans. Just say, you'll stop over after the holidays or send a card. And maybe you and husband should confront SIL and tell her that she hurt her nieces feelings and her niece is building a new life and perhaps some new traditions with her fiancé and you hope she won't upset your daughter in the future. Tell her that your daughter has always been a good granddaughter and you are certain that grandma will understand.
Stand up and be strong, 31 yrs of putting up with this for the sake of making family happy is no longer practical with long distances and busy lives. And you deserve a peaceful holiday whatever that looks like.
Now you can take a page from this book and not make your daughter feel guilty about not coming home on "the holiday". My husband and I have accomodated family for yrs and our son just got married and they are fretting over split holiday time etc. We've told them, anytime we get together is a holiday so make time as a couple to do what you want when you want...we don't expect you to trAvel every holiday or the day after, etc....if we celebrate Chistmas in mid or late Jan, so be it.
Each of our children and their significant others live away and have busy lives. It's unrealistic and selfish to expect them to make all the rounds to see family.
If you really want to invest a certain number of hours at her house on a holiday,
then go for it. If not, then I wouldn't let it bother me in the least bit. Some people suck it up for the sake of so called peace and get away as soon as possible. That's common in many families.
It's highly unlikely you and your daughter's appearance at the celebration is going to make your MIL happy. I'd be prepared for that.
Especially when one gets married... do we spend it with my parents or with his parents.... who gets to see us on Thanksgiving... who gets to see us on Christmas, and Easter. It's a constant juggling act so no feelings will get hurt, but in reality feelings are hurt. I being an only child, I was sure my parents wanted to see me on all holidays plus birthdays. But I couldn't ignore my then hubby's family as his mother wanted to see him on all holidays plus birthdays.