"It's a cliché, but I dread my in-laws visiting at Christmas. My husband and I have been married for almost 20 years ,  but my mother-in-law still finds fault with my housekeeping. She makes snide remarks, re-does things, and one year, she even memorably rearranged my cutlery drawer. How do I deal with her?"

By the time Christmas Day arrives, most of us are utterly exhausted and therefore less "receptive" to people telling us that we haven't roasted our potatoes correctly. And Christmas is a time when we're all meant to act like the Waltons, but more frequently end up like the vituperative battling Roys in Succession .

What might seem trivial at a standard Sunday lunch takes on monumental proportions when you're trapped in a genetic pressure cooker with a tsunami of alcohol, empathy

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