Meetings.

I ended up going to the family gathering today. Sleeping for close to ten hours last night helped sway my decision considerably this morning. It went okay, and leaving when I was ready to leave - peeling off from the group and taking the subway back - was something that didn't get any pushback I could pick up on.

I'm not so much glad I went as I'm relieved I did. There were still the usual frustrations with conversation, and I'm slowly coming around to accepting that I'm probably always going to have to deal with them.