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Originally posted by rho4life
say that you and your honey want to start the new year by spending the day alone together, planning 2006
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Yes -- maybe say you're taking an overnight trip somewhere. Say he surprised you with it if necessary, to cover for the fact that you've never mentioned it before now?
I'm afraid that taking mom out to a brunch somewhere else would result in the same misery, just at a different location. I don't think telling your mom that the brunch makes you miserable would be a great idea either -- I don't think she's going to understand and she might offer 100 reasons why this year is going to be so awesome there is NO WAY you could be anything but delighted to attend. If you quietly bow out this year, you save your sanity -- and maybe others will skip it as well and eventually the whole thing will just go away.