The holidays can be a real drag for some people…

And let’s get real: it can be a lot of work dealing with family and friends!

Did this woman do anything wrong when she bailed on her Christmas festivities?

Let’s see what’s going on here…

AITA for walking out on Christmas?

“I am not a very social person and the holidays can be very taxing for me.

My extended family is in town from all over the world and for the past month they’ve all been here.

It’s the biggest gathering in recent memory.

This sounds exhausting…

Every day there is a big group activity or meal with family.

Myself and my husband work full time at a very stressful job and we are also experiencing financial issues.

So we were expected to join family functions while continuing to work and we only had a few days off for Christmas.

I try to set boundaries but honestly it’s difficult because I’m the oldest of my siblings and I feel a lot of obligations and pressure.

My husband has been on and off reacting strangely.

Sometimes he’s in a terrible mood and doesn’t want to talk or engage.

When he’s like this he is impatient with me and doesn’t want to hear me vent about family or anything I might be upset about.

Other times he seems okay. I know he’s missing his own family (they live in another country) and we made the choice not to fly to see them this Christmas because of finances.

Last night was Christmas Eve, and the entire family is meant to unwrap gifts together.

It’s a tradition.

On the way there, I take my younger cousins and husband to get ice cream, I get some for my mother too.

Things got weird.

When we get to the house my mother immediately asks where the rest of the ice cream is and blames me for not getting enough for the entire party although she knew I was going to the ice cream shop and hadn’t clearly asked me to.

She just expects me to know these things.

Everyone starts avoiding me, which is generally what happens when my mother and I get like this.

For them it’s less drama with me being the scapegoat because it happens so often anyway.

I’m wandering around and my husband is in another room entirely talking to my younger cousin and brother.

He says to me that what my mother did was messed up, but there’s so many people there and I’m feeling socially anxious and tapped out so I can’t properly respond.

I say I’m feeling overwhelmed and I want to go somewhere quiet with him. I want to say more but my husband is in a strange mood again and doesn’t wait to let me finish.

She finally had enough.

He decides to leave me instead and play a game with the cousin across the room.

I’m feeling totally isolated at this point.

By the time my husband comes back, I’m at my breaking point and I just need to leave the house.

I tell him that and walk out without him and I actually go home.

Feeling alone in a huge social gathering where everyone is avoiding me and where I’ve been publicly shamed is the worst feeling to me.

Eventually I go back but it’s hours later and everyone acts like nothing happened except for my husband.

He says I crossed the line and he’s not talking to me.

AITA?”

Here’s what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person said she’s NTA.

Another Reddit user thinks they all suck.

Another individual chimed in.

Smell ya later!

This couple definitely needs to talk to each other.

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.