I have plenty of bad advice in stock, and people keep taking it. This week’s advice includes a lot about family, because it’s the holidays:

• They’re not going to change.
• Don’t have a heart-to-heart conversation with them about how they have to change.
• Those people they hang around with? They chose them This is not news.
• No, don’t let sketchy family members babysit your kids. What are you thinking? No.
• Family is going to do dumb shit and snicker about it. If it matters that much to you, leave the room.
• Yes, they are obsessed with some topic you hate and will talk about it all week. You can’t change that either.
• They will pursue you around the house trying to interact with you and have a heart-to-heart conversation with you about how you have to change. Your main options are a) gray rock b) leave the room c) change. We know how c) is going to go.
• Leave them the fuck alone (this is my all purpose relationship advice).
• If you want to maintain a relationship of any kind with them, you’re going to have to enforce your boundaries vigilantly. Sorry. That’s the way it is.
• Denial is incredibly powerful. They’re gonna deny. You’re gonna deny that you can’t change them. I can’t help it. Nice talking with you.