Dear Eric: My daughter-in-law decided a few years back to host a Friendsgiving dinner a couple of weekends before Thanksgiving. She invites her family (as her mom has never done Thanksgiving) and then a bunch of her and my son’s friends.

In my mind, I know this shouldn’t bother me, but it does. I waited my “turn” growing up and having a family to be the one to host Thanksgiving (my parents have both passed, as has my husband’s mom), and now I have my own grandchildren.

We still do the whole Thanksgiving dinner, but I don’t feel it is as special as it was because now everyone has already had the traditional Thanksgiving meal that previously we only had that one time a year.

She always says, “Oh y’all are welcome to come, too,” but I just can’t get into it and feel resentment that I waite

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