Marie

You know, the conversation of me not going has obviously come up because I have, you know, I've said that, but see, then I get guilt trips.

You know, the guilt gets weaponized by my family as if like... They don't get a vote.

Right.

You know, I've since I've been here the past couple of years, I've been to a few things and, you know, I haven't I've kept my mouth shut.

I've just walked away from the situation.

But that has made me feel like I'm not.

standing up for what I think is right.

And, you know, I don't want to cause some big blowout.

I don't want my... You know, I don't want there to be some big rift.

I guess the... I mean...

I mean, you're absolutely right.

I just, I guess the, I mean, I don't want there to be a follow-up question, but it's just like, I just, I don't want this to be something I have to argue every year.

You know, every time there's something that comes up, it's going to be, so you're just not going to attend this year.

So you're just, you know, how to continually deal with that.

You know, with, if I stand firm on, you know, I'm not going to attend just because I don't want to be around these individuals, you know, it's just,

I feel like every single time it's always going to be then, you know, I've listened to your show plenty of times and you say, you know, people will do everything they can to try to break that boundary and see if it holds.

And I want it to because it's who I am.

You know, I want to stay true to who I am.

But at the same time, it's like I haven't even seen my family in so long.

It would be nice if I could go and enjoy, you know, it.