re: Shift workers.....dealing with family and missing holidays cause you are working

quote:

---

It's mainly this pressure I feel from his parents(mainly his mom)to attend in some way around my schedule. I hate making everyone else fit it around my schedule. Just do it when it's best for most of the family...if I can go great, if not...it's really not a big deal. I've worked the night before a holiday and gotten no sleep the next day so that I could attend and I'm asked all day why I'm so quiet or if something is wrong.

---

It sounds as though you just have to have a sit down talk with your MIL and explain yourself. In my family, three of us worked shift hours. Of course never the same. We worked around it as best as we could. And yes, it sucked some times.