Hey Peoples

Is there anyone else spending Christmas away from their families this year??

I'm gonna spend yet again another Christmas away from my family, it used to be sad..really sad until I discovered that I can do whatever the hell I want without having to listen to "Selena do this or Selena do that" and also I don't miss the family arguments either:) I've counted all the years I haven't spent a Christmas with my father (18 in total) and I did actuallu shed tears over that this year...but it's the way it has to be thanks to his selfish good for nothing wife who considered me "baggage" when she got with Dad.

So it's gonna be another "lonely" Christmas with me doing whatever the hell I want!!

With all that said my heart truly does go out to those who are spending Christmas alone and feeling sad about it!

Selena:)

It is all about sending a card and a gift cerificate for me, I have an excellent "Over the Phone" relationship with my mother, so it is ideal for me.

Hi Matt.

Well Mum is going away with my younger brother!! but I'll probably share lunch or something with my friends back home in Brisbane (I'm in Sydney till next Tuesday) but it is sometimes sad that I've been shunned by my family because I'm "different" but the older I get the less I f*cking care, it's their loss and someone else's gain!

Although I do wonder what it would be like to spend a Christmas or a birthday with "someone" special...I've never done that before, last year I thought my ex Wayne and I would do this but he left me for someone else and spent the Christmas with her.

Selena:)
It is all about sending a card and a gift cerificate for me, I have an excellent "Over the Phone" relationship with my mother, so it is ideal for me.

i find with my family we spend crismas together and then get so fed up that we don't need to see each other for the rest of the year....

and selena....when you find someone to spend crsmas with its gonna be much happier than being with a family the way you describe it anyway

Teedrum

You couldn't be more right!!

Selena

im with my mates for christmas, by that time, we'll prolly be in aucks or a bit past that.
better than the family fights ay

Well I'm spending time with my family, but I've just broken up with my girlfriend, just before I found out I have ADD and the only person I want to be with his her. I can't stand all this family happyness right now, If I watch TV and all these couples all loving each other and have a "famliy christmas" I have to turn the TV off because it makes me so upset, I don't know how I'm going to get throu christmas that this moment in time, I so wish I had know about ADD as a child

I hardly ever spend Christmas with my family, because all of them are at least 500 miles away and this is a bad time of year for traveling. I tend to go home to visit around Easter instead.

so I will be "alone" here over the Christmas season -- just me and the three dogs and the tank full of fish and about and 40 or 50 best friends of all ages who happen to live right here in town. Otherwise, all alone...poor me.

Ducky

Hi everyone,

We get to see both my family and my husband's family each year for Christmas and I really look forward to it. My husband does not enjoy Christmas very much - he feels a lot of fuss is made on the one day that it is all commercial. How people behave the other 364 count days is far more important he says. He feels this way about birthdays too.

I appreciate he has a right to his opinion, but it really puts a dampener on the day for me. One year it was our turn to host Christmas lunch and he still had not opened the present I gave him. My mum asked him to open it and he said "when I'm ready". I find this really hard to take and dread the disappointment I experience each year instead of the joy I remember when I was growing up. Maybe I'm just too sentimental and harking back to the "good old days", or trying at least to relive the happiness I think I experienced then. (Hard to tell sometimes, as I'm a bit of a rose coloured glasses kinda person).

Anyway, my sons (young adults who still live at home) seem to enjoy Christmas - especially the cricket match after lunch on Boxing Day. Husband's brother has huge lawn area and all the guys split into teams. Definitely a spectator sport for me - have to keep a watch out for flying balls hurtling towards me.:eek:

I don't see my family all that much during the year, usually just on birthdays, Christmas, New Year (which is also my sister's birthday) and Mother's and Father's Day. Maybe that's why I enjoy it when I do see them!

In any case, a Merry Christmas to everyone. Hope those that wish to spend it with special loved ones get to do that, and those who do not find it a happy occasion get to spend the day the way they like to without family arguments or dramas.

I'm sorry to hear that regybear.

I hope it all works out for you.

Selena:)
Well I'm spending time with my family, but I've just broken up with my girlfriend, just before I found out I have ADD and the only person I want to be with his her. I can't stand all this family happyness right now, If I watch TV and all these couples all loving each other and have a "famliy christmas" I have to turn the TV off because it makes me so upset, I don't know how I'm going to get throu christmas that this moment in time, I so wish I had know about ADD as a child

I'm sorry to hear that regybear.

I hope it all works out for you.

Selena:)

hey how did your christmas and new year work out for you?, mine was awful but I think i'm coming though the worst of it right now,