Expert advice on how to survive Christmas when you have a difficult family
at the last minute, tying up loose ends at work, and spending money you don’t have is not always a recipe for relaxation.
How to survive Christmas when you have a difficult family: “The pressure to have a perfect Christmas is tied up with all sorts of assumptions about the ‘perfect family’”tend to focus on connection: parents and their offspring, brothers and sisters, and, most tear-jerking of all, grandparents and their grandchildren. It’s a reliable source of emotion for brands, presumably because it’s considered so universally relatable.
I’m not estranged from my family, but our relationship is not always easy. For many years I blamed myself: I was too annoying, too provocative, I started too many arguments. I felt completely powerless to get out of what was an often incredibly draining andI was so jealous of friends who had more straightforwardly supportive parents or who had a large, close knit community of relatives; it was so bad that it often festered into a pretty unpleasant bitterness.
How to survive Christmas when you have a difficult family: “It wasn’t my fault – nor was it theirs, particularly. We just clashed in many ways”
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