WHY KIKI GETS THE CREEPS FROM THE WORD FAMILY WEEKEND

No, I'm not a bitter person without a nice family. Quite the opposite (hi, mom), but what really annoys me is the word family weekend. And the look in other people's eyes when I say that such a weekend seems terri-fying to me. Look, how can you?! It's your family!

Okay, I admit: when it comes to family weekends, I am a bit of the I-Hate-Smurf, but in the past few weeks, I've seen one family weekend after another pop up on my Facebook. As if we aren't busy enough together in December. And practically everything that happens during that weekend is, of course, all recorded and posted on social media. Yesss, we have to show the world what a fun family we are, of course.

Why I find family weekends complicated:

You. Can't. Get. Out. It's also strange to suddenly pack your bags when you're no longer in the mood. The idea of being away together, but also not being able to return, feels suffocating.

I always hear stories from friends about that one uncle who does gross things again when he's had a few too many glasses of wine.

Trying to work in between, calmly painting your nails, or isolating yourself for a moment? Forget it, going to a family weekend means participating all the way. Let's get some fresh air and do activities. That's what we're going to do today. And how fun it will be, right!

Worst case scenario: you're your friend's +1 and in the evening you're brushing your teeth for the first time with your mother-in-law. The next day you're on the team with your father-in-law and doing extremely entertaining things like apple bobbing.

It's just like a big student house: in the morning there's always someone in the shower when you want to go. Let's not even talk about when you need to do number 2 and really don't want to in a house with twenty others.

You have two types of people: group people, and, uh, not so group people. Guess which category I belong to. There, that's out.

Am I completely wrong? Are your family weekends the best ever? Let me know, maybe I can come to other insights. And yes, of course, I know that looking forward to it makes it worse. The truth is: real quality time with your family is just becoming more and more precious and sometimes, yes very rarely, such a weekend away can be nice. A little call to my (in-law) family: if we are going on a family weekend anyway, let's bring wine. A lot. And leave creepy uncles at home.