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Meulen

Isn't this all year for you?

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ZMan8

Try not to look at Christmas as a time of obligations and stressing over lots of things such as to do lists and gifts. See it as an opportunity to reconnect with family or friends you have not spoken to in a while. There is this social obligation to bring gifts for everybody and I definitely am guilty of getting sucked in to that. At the end of the day realize that those who only want to see others for the gift are not worth your time to think about. If you want Little symbolic gifts are much better. Leave larger more thought out gifts for the closest in your life. People sometimes forget that holidays are about being together, laughing, having a good time with your family and friends. Gift are a by product of holidays/ special occasions that have become part of our culture.

Bring a bottle of wine to dinner and enjoy the moment.

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osbornsm

Thanks guys... does mean a lot


One common theme, everybody says drink to make it better... I can not.
(one sip of alcohol will give me a migraine)

b15

What are you freaking out about? This should be a happy time!

osbornsm

Exactly, it's never been anything happy.

There was no traumatic event that happened to me.
I just loathe being told when to buy things for people.

Why are the holidays happy for you guys?

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b15

Well.....you don't HAVE to buy anything!

For me, this time of year is when I get to see a lot of family and friends, some of whom I haven't seen since the prior year or even longer. It also means good food and drinks. It's time where I don't travel as much for work and get to spend quality time at home. It's also the only part of winter that I like. Come January 2nd- I'm ready for summer.

jlo370z

I'm just a big kid, so I love getting presents lmao! Anyone need my xmas list?


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osbornsm

I think it's my social anxiety (yes Mulen, all the time) plus the obligation to buy gifts. I see my family for easter, christmas, thxgiving, birthdays, anniversarys.

I have 50 people at my Christmas dinner and its become more and more difficult to handle every year.

I just want to hide from the world and never come out.

jlo370z

Fwiw xmas with my wife's family sucks ***. 1 there is 50 of them, all trying to speak over each other so it's like a huge shouting match. 2 I'm a red headed step child. Everyone of them has at least 1 gift to open, except me who has 0 because I got in family late and am not a god parent to none of the children. Now I don't care that I get no gift, but they go in order of age so every year they make a point to call me out and then go ooops lol.
They are all good people but between the noise and the look you get nutin lol.... Whatever.

Your not alone in your suffering my friend, your not alone


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osbornsm

Thanks Jim.

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Meulen

So Sean!....

My inlaws completely hate me. My mother in law and I were good. She and I got along great. She passed away about 4 years ago. After that my father in law went bat sh*t crazy. Within a few weeks he found someone new to share in this crazy on a "Christian" dating site. She was raised a lot of red flags with us. Then they decided they were going to get married. So I hired a PI and shown him that she was going guy to guy to guy stealing businesses overlapping addresses, opening credit cards etc. She denied all of this, of course, but it was all in police databases. Even so dad decided to believe her and made me the bast@rd of the family for hiring a PI. A year later he discovered she was still living with another guy and had an apartment with him. He swept that under the rug and is still with her. Besides that my wife was the red-headed step child of her family. I hated going to family events because she would always leave in tears. I was almost glad to be done with it when her father disowned us for the whole PI thing. He keeps reaching out now, but we won't have anything to do with it. The new wife has made threats to sue me and I just don't want to take any chances because I know she's capable of following through with that even if she won't win and could cost me a whole lot of cash even if I didn't do anything. What I'm saying is......

everyone has problems bro! Man up and have a stiff drink!!!!

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NFSZ86

Lol Jim good thing our ladies don't read this lol I don't actually hate x mas but I do dislike here in the us everyone gets drunk and most of my family and friends are mostly broke around that time for some reason. I give but it's hard to be always giving so I stop and now I'm the a$$ u know but whatever. Is not like back home happy and fun and not cold lol.

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jlo370z

Werd! Hahaha


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b15

Damn, I guess I'm lucky then. We get along great with both sides, and holidays are always a blast. Days do get a little long since we visit both families, but other than that I love it!