Mad at my kids and need advice (guilty, member, gossip)
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You are being petty. Selfish, childish, immature and again, petty.
No, this is not petty. This was a slap in the face.
If I had waited until next Christmas, served donuts for dinner, and given them all a tin of tea and jar of jam, that would have been petty and immature.
No, this is not petty. This was a slap in the face.
If I had waited until next Christmas, served donuts for dinner, and given them all a tin of tea and jar of jam, that would have been petty and immature.
But the thought did occur to me.
B.S.
This is the definition of petty.
I hope you enjoy the divide you're getting ready to put in your family dynamic.
The only wrong thing I see is the brunch without food. That's bad, the rest not so much.
My family doesn't really do up Christmas with a bunch of presents and I'm so glad. Have you ever noticed how much of it is people just exchanging crap? Forget about the presents. Its just stuff. My parents told us kids to stop buying them presents years ago because they've acquired the means to have anything they want and don't want us wasting our money in the usual crap exchange.
I do want to ask what the performance was. Is it maybe that they went in on expensive tickets for you?
If you don't want to read my narcissistic drama, there are literally thousands of other threads to follow.
As to just stopping, how does one just stop one's heart from hurting?
Not only was this not my ideal Christmas celebration, this was a mockery of our family traditions. If they didn't want to host Christmas, fine. No one asked them to. They volunteered. Perhaps they felt this was a way to make up for holding it a week early.
Of course it's not good for me. I'm ready to disown the whole bunch. I know I'd regret that.
But I'm definitely taking a break from presents for a year or two.
No. Buy them gifts next year, but from one of those places where you can buy a goat or a pair of ducks or a hammer for a family in an undeveloped country in honor of someone.
Then at Christmas, announce cheerily what you have done for them. Then break into a rendition of Do-Re-Mi and when you get to "Ti, a drink with jam and bread", stop and begin laughing like a hyena.
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