So we both do Thanksgiving separately at our respective families’ places, and then we do ours a couple days after. The plan had been on for a week, I was excited to cook our meal and spend time with him, all that good stuff. He calls the day of and the first thing he says is he can’t make it. He’s been recovering from an upper respiratory infection and says he’s worried if he exerts himself he won’t be good for the coming work week. Thing is, he’s been back at work all of last week, telling me daily he’s basically back to normal and the treatment worked. At my parents’ this year, a couple of people were recovering post a nasty RSV infection, my grandfather is just off his cancer treatment, etc. and we all came together for some shared time even though it was pretty low energy. His reason didn’t make sense to me, and my intuition says it’s just an excuse. Would you be upset about this?


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