Is it normal to drive a halfhour to go to applebee's easter

Is it normal to drive a half hour to a place like Applebee's for brunch at 11:30 on Easter when I have family in town that cooks in entire dinner homemade with dessert for Easter five minutes away. My girlfriend thinks we should drive a half hour every year to her family's Easter when they don't have it at a house; they have it at a random chain restaurant that can be located (like a different Applebee's) closer to us, but they pick one farther away and instead. When my family has homemade Easter dinner and Easter egg hunt five minutes away. There are only five people at the chain restaurant for Easter dinner, but my whole family comes to the homemade Easter dinner five minutes away. So, is it normal to drive all the way there to a restaurant you can go any night when my family has a really nice traditional Easter dinner five minutes away from our house keep in mind we have to drive all the way there and all the way back and miss my family's dinner (just in the time it takes to drive to their chain resteraunt) in order to go to the chain restaurant is that normal ?

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Based on 15 votes (2 yes)
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  • Joeyb649

    We do they are really weird, like all my sisters in laws come and it is fun. They are very weird like keep a ledger of what people pay for presents so they can give them the exact amount back. They have a baseball card book filled with coupons in separated protectors, as well as when they park they only pick "end spots" because "less likely" their car will get hit. We have Sunday lunch every week, and they don't come. The father was laid off and I got him a really good job, I had to find a new one because of possible nepotism too! You ALWAYS have to take your shoes off in the house. Why they had open house they made people wear surgical booties. I helped them hook up their entire electronic system, computers, printers, burnt them CDs. At 23 I bought a house for their daughter even though I wanted to move south so I could afford something bigger I stayed here cuz they wanted us to stay so we live in a smaller place. THEN after all that and complaining about seeing their daughter not enough, THEY MOVE 30 minutes away not cuz they had to but because they wanted a bigger house! So now every holiday we drive there and back wasting time missing my family on holidays just to drive there. We see both of them; both sides of her family morning and night at two different times, and they still complain that she didn't stay for dinner only for presents, when in 3 hrs we have to drive to a different town to see fathers side. My father died suddenly from cancer and ONLY her dad came, and that is because everyone from the job I got him came together, it just doesn't seem they are very other family oriented they only care about theirs even though we are very accepting, it is like they don't want to be part of our family or are just weird. We are very down to earth they are fake snobby. They call their tiny office room their "Study" and this tiny den "THE FOURTH BEDROOM" idk what it is they just don't try to be apart of our family. Still to this day has not even acknowledge at 23 I bought a house for us. My therapist honestly seems to think he is jealous, because I technically "HAVE" his daughter, more education, am more intelligent, only reason he has a Job is because of me, I work out a lot and I'm muscle bound he works out has no noticeible "work out" look so maybe it is that. I try joking with her sister, but she ignores me or pretends to get truly upset. It is just how they are. I always dress very nicely and act polite, but everyone I go over there they barely talk to me, or maybe force conversations but never ask me how schools going, acknowledge the fact my dad died the same year I bought a house. Nothing is even acknowledge I have a 4.0 in a nursing program they never ask me how school is going or anything about house EVER. Thank you for your reply.

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  • Ellenna

    You go to your family and she goes to hers: you're not conjoined twins, are you?

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    • Joeyb649

      That is how you would like to spend every holiday without your significant other. Neither of us would like that, nor would either family. Then everybody loses...

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      • Ellenna

        I don't have a significant other and I don't celebrate easter but decades back the same issue would come up for family xmas dinners. It's not rocket science: one meal is in the middle of the day with one family and the other in the evening with the other family, just as hundreds of thousands or more likely millions of couples organise it. Everyone wins.

        What's wrong with you two that you can't get it together about this?

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  • thegypsysailor

    Why not invite her family to your family's easter?

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