Probing questions about my holiday plans, Coping with Emotions

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Dec 19, 2019, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic

Some people are asking to make sure you have a place to go and they might find such a place for you if you said you were alone. I know when I was a grad student I ended up at several people’s thanksgivings this way because I could not afford a plane ticket at both thanksgiving and Christmas.

^This might be the case for why they are asking. You could say, “Why do you ask?” Then it puts them on the spot to invite you or back off.

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