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You could certainly be honest about your reasons for skipping the reception, but this wedding is not about you. If you want to avoid conflict beforehand, it should be fairly easy for you to attend the reception, congratulate your sister and her husband, participate in the photo session, visit with your own family members and other people you do like, and then quietly exit when the dancing and drinking start.

“I like to think of it in a similar vein to what used to be considered plus-size clothing, which had its own separate store 20 years ago,” Wells said. “Fast forward to today, you don’t really find as much of that — you find all brands, having a more inclusive size range. Who wants to shop separately? Everyone wants to shop together. We want people to feel included, so we use something called universal design which is essentially designing an article of clothing that caters to the most amount of people possible.”

She calls and texts him constantly. They go hiking and camping almost every weekend, and she attends all of his family events. I haven’t even been invited to a family games’ night yet, but when I am finally invited, his ex will be right there when I finally meet his siblings and their families. Oh, and because the family lives in the next town over, we’ll be carpooling with her.