You can’t chose your family, you are born into a family and you don’t get a say in it. You marry into one because you love someone and you just have to deal with the extended family that comes with your partner. They get thrown in for free!

You can chose you friends and your partner but whether you like it or not, you also have to deal with family. Your own or in-laws, they come with the package..

I have a great family and I love them to bits. I had some odd in-laws though, or well in-laws to be as I never married . I just had to deal with them and go through life my own way. But I guess that isn’t so easy for everyone. This guy really didn’t like his family. Actually I thinks he hates them. According to the article he rather spend New Year’s Eve in jail than with his family. He even asked to be taken to jail, but because he hadn’t commited a crime he was shown the door. This ‘smart’ guy went straight next door, shoplifted some stuff and waited for the police to come pick him up. Now that’s determination!

I guess for him that was a great way to start of the new year, maybe not so much for his wife and the family, who know now he rather be in jail than with them….

I’m all for making my own choices, for doing the things in life that I like to do. After all it’s my life. I can certainly understand though that you can’t always say no to spending time with family / in-laws. I have had to spend time with the ‘in-laws’ while I didn’t like it. But when it gets to the point where I rather go to jail than spend time with them it’s fairly simple to me; I just spend it away from the in-laws! Whether they like it or not, when it would get that far I would spend that time in my own house (or another place than jail) where I’d rather be.

Did you every say ‘no’ to your family or in-laws when you had to spend time with them when you really didn’t want to? How did they take it? And if you can’t say no to them would you rather try to get into jail so you can get away from them? Not that I’d recommend the latter though but I can imagine not everyone can stand up for themselves as well as I (or others) can.

For the record; I have said no to in-laws that wanted me to spend time with them at certain points while I rather wanted to be somewhere else. I don’t think they liked it but hey that’s life. What also played a part in that though, was that we never got along too well so it’s easier saying no in those situations. I have, however, never said no to my own family as I just love them so much and love spending time with them.

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