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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 615242" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>I'll just say yes to that one. difficult child's have a tendency to make the focus of the holidays all about themselves. My SO had a difficult child stepson who brought his mom/SO's exwife to tears on every family holiday...saying he would come then not showing up after she cooked all day, coming and dropping off his baby then leaving to party with friends, not calling on her birthday (txt message, anyone)....so that he (my SO) now has a knee jerk dread of holidays.</p><p>In my own family my difficult child just manages to make everyone tense. As a kid he would be over excited, loud, messy, accident prone, making the sort of happy family stress go over the top to yelling. Now that he is older it is a festival of "hi mom I think I'll come, no I won't yes I will no I won't only if my street person 10-years-older girlfriend who cheats on me and I cheat on her can come, oh forget it I went on a drug binge and dropped out of sight anyway....and the winner this year...oh forget it, I'm in jail. " Up to and including Thanksgiving this year it has always been a point of stress, anxiety, and sadness for me. The group especially Cedar helped me through Thanksgiving (he didn't come because of the girlfriend). Christmas...honestly, I am relieved. It will be me, the PCs, and my SO--his first time at Christmas with us, since we had some family unification struggles. I am looking forward to peace, and I think I'll actually get it this year. I hope that you do too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 615242, member: 17269"] I'll just say yes to that one. difficult child's have a tendency to make the focus of the holidays all about themselves. My SO had a difficult child stepson who brought his mom/SO's exwife to tears on every family holiday...saying he would come then not showing up after she cooked all day, coming and dropping off his baby then leaving to party with friends, not calling on her birthday (txt message, anyone)....so that he (my SO) now has a knee jerk dread of holidays. In my own family my difficult child just manages to make everyone tense. As a kid he would be over excited, loud, messy, accident prone, making the sort of happy family stress go over the top to yelling. Now that he is older it is a festival of "hi mom I think I'll come, no I won't yes I will no I won't only if my street person 10-years-older girlfriend who cheats on me and I cheat on her can come, oh forget it I went on a drug binge and dropped out of sight anyway....and the winner this year...oh forget it, I'm in jail. " Up to and including Thanksgiving this year it has always been a point of stress, anxiety, and sadness for me. The group especially Cedar helped me through Thanksgiving (he didn't come because of the girlfriend). Christmas...honestly, I am relieved. It will be me, the PCs, and my SO--his first time at Christmas with us, since we had some family unification struggles. I am looking forward to peace, and I think I'll actually get it this year. I hope that you do too. [/QUOTE]
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