He’s invited family for Christmas – and didn’t ask me

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TV’s Steph and Dom parker, 53 and 56, draw on their 23 years of marriage to solve your relationship problems . . .

QCAN you help us settle an argument please? Without talking to me first — I was at work — my husband has invited his parents and his sister, with her husband and kids, to come to ours for Christmas.

I have told him to cancel as I’ve been working flat-out trying to hold on to my job and I was looking forward to a quiet few days with my husband and our six-year-old daughter — not a madhouse.

He didn’t consider my parents. My mum is shielding, so they wouldn’t have taken the risk, but I don’t want to think of them alone.

He says I’m overreacting and we can FaceTime them, but I can’t bear to hurt them like that. On top of everything, I’ll have to do the preparations, cleaning and the cooking and I just don’t want to. I don’t think I should back down.