[wreckedmess]

What happens when you are invited to a family gathering for a teen but really do not like the parents? Do you bail, are you honest? Right now we are stuck with this thing to attend at the end of the month and neither of us really want to go.

[FinallyHome]

I'm the kind of person that if I don't want to go to something, I just don't go. I don't make excuses if I can help it. I would suggest not going if you feel strongly about avoiding it.

[happylady]

I think it would depend on how close I was to the teen and how important the event is to the teen. I might consider attending for the teen's sake.

[Freebird]

Either I would not go or I would go and try to be nice. That is about the best that I can do. I really do not like to get to confrontational.

[Friendlygal]

If I went I wouldn't stay long. I don't like feeling "forced" to go to things like this. Fortunately our families have gotten the message and don't push quite so hard anymore.

[wreckedmess]

My phone blew up last night, all because of the teens birthday. We said we could stop by to say hello and drop off a gift which is true since we both have a work meeting that evening (a dinner meeting). They then decided to change this girls entire birthday to the day before (when we are both out of town) to "help us" but not even ask. Then after that the spouses cell blew up with a text asking us to babysit a week later.