Fellas, if she invites you to Thanksgiving dinner, you know you’re not actually her boyfriend, right?

There are a few things we can expect each thanksgiving. We can expect to re-watch each season's Gossip Girl Thanksgiving episode, we can expect to hate ourselves after consuming twice the calories we've consumed in the past month, and we can expect to be asked The Dreaded Question: There's a lot of room at the table this year, are you sure you don’t have a boyfriend yet?

Well if I had a boyfriend, Aunt Hellen, don't you think he'd be sitting right the fuck next to me? Or, more realistically, don't you think I'd be at his place avoiding all of this?

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Which is why this year, girls everywhere are devising a plan to bring their side man or fling to Thanksgiving, before never speaking to them again. So before you get all excited about the fact she's finally invited you to meet her family, consider whether this is just to stunt you before she dumps you:

You're honestly here for her fit

Or so she can stop disappointing her grandma for once

You are a 'fake' boyfriend — a very specific breed

Or she's just doing it for the food which is…fair

Either way, she is going to dump you as soon as it's over

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't about you. She doesn't actually want to introduce you to every last member of her extended family. This is about her.

But really, what is Thanksgiving if we don't have some bum-ass drug addicted boyfriend there to ruin everything? Jokes on us, I guess.

@carolinephinney