For the past three years many people have been bracing for Holiday gathers; which are meant for connecting, seeing people and opportunities for better relations. You can do this.
Excellent advice! Actually so much better than the week milky advice most people (not here on Substack, but in less powerful places online) are posting about this.
I’ve been discussing how to handle certain things if they come up. Luckily, NONE came up at all last Thanksgiving. Could we be so lucky again this year? There will be 24 people there!
Wish I could have read this a few years ago when a friend we invited to thanksgiving had a meltdown and started arguing with my wife and I. It got so heated I had to step in and say get the f out of my house! It’s as if she were demonically possessed.
Excellent advice! Actually so much better than the week milky advice most people (not here on Substack, but in less powerful places online) are posting about this.
I’ve been discussing how to handle certain things if they come up. Luckily, NONE came up at all last Thanksgiving. Could we be so lucky again this year? There will be 24 people there!
Wish I could have read this a few years ago when a friend we invited to thanksgiving had a meltdown and started arguing with my wife and I. It got so heated I had to step in and say get the f out of my house! It’s as if she were demonically possessed.
If I had the answers for random emotional ambushes, I never would have written this. I salute you for living to tell the tale.