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How To Handle the Delirious Christmas Houseguest and It’s Not Santa
My question is about having a Christmas houseguest and I don’t mean Santa.
I just got a text from a friend, whom we socialize with over the summer, asking if she and her husband could stay in our guesthouse for the week of Christmas.
Her text began: BIG ASK. I’ll say. that’s a big ask!
They stayed in our guesthouse for a week last May for their daughter’s wedding and we went all out, without feeling much appreciation in return. Inexplicably, I immediately texted SURE.
But now we’re having a change of heart.
We really don’t enjoy their company very much and, as I said, we don’t feel appreciated.
How do we get out of this?
–RK, Newport, RI
As soon as you read this, text your would-be-Christmas-houseguest to say, “I answered your BIG ASK text too quickly. We cannot possibly have you staying with us for a week over Christmas. We have other plans.”
- Leave it at that.
- No lies (the Plans could be that you hadn’t really planned on having them to visit).
- If she asks why not? Say, “It is not a good time for us to have houseguests.”
- Should she persist. say, “Xmas week is not a good time to visit.”
~Didi
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