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I am not look­ing for­ward to this.

Soon will come the time when I travel back home to visit fam­ily and friends for the Christ­mas hol­i­day. As the years have passed by and I get older and older, there is one ques­tion which con­tin­ues to be asked and the amount of times I get this ques­tion con­tin­ues to rise faster than a loaf of bread cook­ing in the oven.

“So when are you get­ting mar­ried?” “You have a girl­friend yet?”.

This two part ques­tion just dri­ves me crazy. I have resigned myself to just say­ing “She’s on her way. Let me see if she is here yet.” I smile and quickly change the sub­ject. I just can’t take it any­more. This is the one part of my hol­i­day trip I am dread­ing because the sub­ject comes up so often and I have no answer. In fact at fam­ily gath­er­ings of at least 25 peo­ple, it always comes up dur­ing the mid­dle por­tion of din­ner when peo­ple have taken a break from eat­ing so much and there is a hush over the room and here it comes .… Ugh. The sim­ple answer is that I am just too picky and say­ing that will open up the door to many, many unwanted and unso­licited opinions.

Maybe I should can­cel my trip back home this Christ­mas. No ques­tions = no stress.