With the end of the year comes the end of patience for the tiresomeness of tolerating boorish behavior perpetrated by my partner's pompous progeny.

Happy early new year from a longtime lurker who, after the latest in an endless pattern of unshockingly shocking behavior by one of my husband's adult children, is hoping for some kind of catharsis from the stress and frustration in a forum of peers who "get it" and are beyond the b.s.