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My husband and I were married on Halloween, closed on our first home a week later, & offered to host Christmas for his side of the family to relieve stress for everyone. Even though the stress of a wedding, adjusting to marriage, a new home, and hosting a major event—I wanted to be there for his, now our, family. We asked everyone to be there at 8:00 am on Christmas morning for breakfast and opening gifts. The days before, I cleaned the new home top to bottom, decorated, shopped, cooked and prepare finger foods. I had put more preparation into this event than my own wedding the month before. Christmas day came and nobody showed up. Eventually, people showed up hours later. Nobody touched anything I made. His family had invited extended family and friends without notice. They also decided to bring their own food. Again, my hours of cooking went untouched. They stayed for hours into the night. His brother informed me the gift I got for his daughter, she already had and didn’t take his gift we bought for him and his girlfriend. They eventually left without a thank you or offer to help clean up. Coming from a divorced family, it felt like rejection again from people who are supposed to love me. It’s that time of year and it still breaks my heart. I hope one Christmas it doesn’t hurt so bad. I am expecting my first child in March and I vow to make his Christmas special, putting him first.
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You expected too much from these people, but at least now you know what they are like and to never do this again.
I once had a Christmas when myself (a single mother) and my three children were invited to my son's friend's home by the boy's mother for a barbecue and this woman had previously told me on the phone that no other adults would be there but when we arrived there was another woman and man there. I sat in the room alone while they talked until the boy's mother asked me to join them at her bar. As soon as I sat down the other woman who was on a stool next to me turned so that her back was in my face. Then a couple turned up and when they were leaving offered to give me a lift home so I declined and said I was there for a barbecue. Apparently the boy's mother had now no intention of having any barbecue and was going out instead. But she told her eldest son to put meat on their barbie and went out and I was the only adult there with a number of kids. I was very upset and couldn't stop crying. On the way home I told the cab driver what had happened and he was horrified and told me to never have anything to do with that woman again. I definitely did that.
This happened because the boy's mother had never met me before and I have a pretty face.
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