like all the fuckin ads with the hugging families around winter. any educationally normal adult knows everyone just gets more stressed, with travel and gifts and social obligations and everything, but you’re not even allowed to…openly feel that, it seems? it’s like there’s this happiness benchmark you have to reach, otherwise you’ll feel even shittier and sadder for not having a happy holiday season

  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    That’s why I only give gifts privately and to my little brothers and mom, nobody else gets anything. I also don’t attend family get together so there’s that.