“.. have major issues around Christmas..”
I really wonder about many of the children today and how they will celebrate/see Christmas in the future. The little girl just “wanted it over”. No excitement in her eyes.. no real plans to “enjoy” her time off of school. She and her brother will be with their Mom till Christmas Eve and then with their Dad/new wife. Then they will spend time with paternal Grandparents for two days (while Dad/new Mom take a mini-vacation without them) only to go off to New Jersey for two days with the maternal grandparents. The best I can hope for them is that they grow up together despite all the splitting and are close siblings in the future.
Well....my first marriage ended in divorce, but I swore (silently to myself) that my son would not live the life I did....my ex’s family was a good family, and I made sure he didn’t get yanked around at Christmas ....and now he is married with kids, and we are one state apart, and I still make sure he is NOT yanked around, so his kids (this is his wife’s 3rd marriage - 3 of 4 kids are not his) do not have to suffer...it means I have had to suffer...but, that’s the way it is.