Hi, witz, you might be thinking of The Mothman Prophecies, that Gere was in. The Butterfly Effect has Ashton Kutcher in it. Never seen it myself, either.
Why don't you throw a small New Year's party? Maybe one for other people with small children like yours who aren't going out to the bars and such that night.
Maybe w's BF from Cali. is only catching up, but like you say maybe she is reporting back to your W. So, be careful what you tell her. You might not want your W coming here to read all your thoughts and worries.
I guess your W felt smothered by so much family so much of the time. I believe I would feel the same. It just gets to be so much, and you can't breathe. My H's aunt and uncle expected and demanded we be there every year on Christmas Eve, which is my birthday. So we did this every year, until our S was born. I told H I wanted to skip every other year, so we could have our own traditions. When we told them we wouldn't be there the next year, his uncle got so angry, and told us he WOULD see us the next year. Now, years later we only go over now and then, not on my birthday anymore, and we have our own traditions, like driving all over after dark to look at Christmas lights, having hot cocoa, and other stuff, like a birthday celebration for me. Just saying that too much family too often can be very strangling. You have to break away sometimes.
You can get through this week, witz, you are doing really very well.