text: He's not going to tell them to leave, and you can't have a private fight with seven extra people in the house. So that's not going to happen. You have a car, you have a weekend, you have motels in every direction -- but since you are afraid to adult in front of the grownups, might as well smile and lie down. Learning to doormat can be fun, I suppose.  You COULD pull up panties and decide to not only do what you want, but to tell the consequences to jump in a lake. Backlash will be 'You a bad person!" So? Like the people backlashing at you have opinions worth anything?