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"As the holidays come closer, many of us are faced with a balancing act worthy of a Cirque du Soleil performer: when there&amp;amp;#8217;s a significant other in the picture, how do we manage between our family time, our holiday time, our bedroom time and our girlfriend time. It will be the source of at least a million&amp;amp;#8212;perhaps a billion&amp;amp;#8212;fights this season. To try to preemptively get some of my fellow men off the naughty list, I asked my friends, &amp;quot;What is the single worst thing a significant other makes you do over the holidays?&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;Spending time with her family is up there. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not the guy who is going to marry their daughter. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not their son. I&amp;amp;#8217;m the guy who has been having sex with their daughter and little sister for the past three months. For her, it&amp;amp;#8217;s about them getting to know the real you. For me, it&amp;amp;#8217;s like, &amp;amp;#8216;I want to be with my own family. They don&amp;amp;#8217;t want me here. I&amp;amp;#8217;m tired of sitting in front of the fire. Can we please go back to my apartment&amp;amp;#8217;. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not opposed to meeting the family, at all, but pretending that I&amp;amp;#8217;m a part of it for a week is such nonsense. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s just have a dinner where I&amp;amp;#8217;m the new boyfriend. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t need a Christmas stocking with my name on it just yet.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;mdash;Terrence, 25, bartender/guitarist &amp;amp;#8220;All the time she made me go shopping. For me, not for her. It was this insane thing where she needed to buy &amp;amp;#8216;the right&amp;amp;#8217; gift for me. But &amp;amp;#8216;the right&amp;amp;#8217; gift is a matter of forethought, a matter of knowing me so well that you know what I really want without me asking, nevermind without me going to a million stores, trying a million things on, and then feeling guilty when you buy me something I know costs too much money.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;mdash;Jonathan, 30, advertising exec &amp;amp;#8220;The worst is &amp;amp;#8216;Let&amp;amp;#8217;s do New Year&amp;#x27;s, just the two of us&amp;amp;#8217;. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve had that before on two separate occasions. It sucks. If I say &amp;amp;#8216;yes&amp;amp;#8217; I&amp;amp;#8217;m stuck not seeing my friends on New Year&amp;#x27;s. If I say &amp;amp;#8216;No&amp;amp;#8217; I&amp;amp;#8217;m an a** hole.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;mdash;Sean, 26, banker &amp;amp;#8220;The thing where you have to give each other gifts is painfully ridiculous. We&amp;amp;#8217;ve been dating for two months. What we buy for each other for Christmakuh should not matter in the least.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;mdash;Michael, 21, student &amp;amp;#8220;Over the holidays, the worst thing that my wife does is not be Muslim [laughs. It&amp;amp;#8217;s true. I have to say, my parents are awesome, but the holidays bring about these weird, stressy conditions, where at least one of family members will say something along the lines of &amp;amp;#8216;Arjun was so promising, too bad he couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t find a nice Indian girl&amp;amp;#8217;. And yes, my wife will be in the room. She thinks it&amp;amp;#8217;s funny.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;mdash;Arjun, 30, insurance &amp;amp;#8220;The activities. They kill me. &amp;amp;#8216;Let&amp;amp;#8217;s go sledding. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s go to the mall. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s go play with my nieces. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s go for a snowshoe&amp;amp;#8217;. I get very little time off. his is the one time of year people take a break from hurting themselves and I can actually leave the hospital for more than five hours. So yes, we could go skiing, or we could lie on the couch and cuddle and watch Family Guy for 3 hours while we drift in and out of sleep. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s do that.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8212;Mark, 29, doctor What annoying thing does your guy do at the time of the holidays? Have a question about Dating, Relationships, or Sex for Single John? Submit it here. Can be totally Anonymous! More on What Men Want at Glamour.com Daily Bedroom Question: What Kind of Game Do You Have? Would You Give Your Boyfriend This Racy Gift for the Holidays? Guys Reveal Their X-Rated X-mas Lists Photo: Thinkstock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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