To help you get through those long and difficult holiday occasions when you need to be in the same room as someone who annoys the life out of you, try activating your writing backbrain to figure out how you'd go about putting him/her/it into a story and making him/her/it a sympathetic character.
Bear in mind that a character may be sympathetic without being at all likable. Scrooge (I finished my annual Christmas Carol reread yesterday) is not a likable character in any significant sense; but he's sympathetic, all the same.
Maybe that person will be more bearable afterward. Or maybe not. But at least you'll have gotten some good out of him/her/it.
Just make sure, if you ever use such a person in published works, that he/she/it is rendered completely unrecognizable.
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