like all the fuckin ads with the hugging families around winter. any educationally normal adult knows everyone just gets more stressed, with travel and gifts and social obligations and everything, but you’re not even allowed to…openly feel that, it seems? it’s like there’s this happiness benchmark you have to reach, otherwise you’ll feel even shittier and sadder for not having a happy holiday season
Nothing is stopping you from not giving a shit about official holidays.
My immediate family just gets together random weekends. There’s never stress or conflicting schedules. So it makes it better for us, even if there’s still inlaw shit on actual holidays.
It’s an incredibly easy thing to do, literally nothing is stopping your family from doing the same.