#12471 How to Survive Family Discussions This Thanksgiving and More - Rose Sweet
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How to survive family discussions this Thanksgiving” is a common concern, especially when differing opinions arise. This episode also addresses the importance of being properly detached during conversations and offers strategies for managing unwanted guests while maintaining relationships. Tune in for practical advice on navigating these challenging family dynamics.
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Questions Covered:
- 0:00 – 7 Tips for surviving family discussion this Thanksgiving
- 35:20 – Being properly detached
- 46:10 – Managing unwanted guests without harming relationship with them
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| 0:15.1 | Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I am Cy Kelly, your host. It's Monday. |
| 0:19.2 | Always so happy to be back here on a Monday, but it's going to be kind of a short week this week. It won't entirely be a short week for us. We'll have new programs for you each day. But we got the, some of those are already recorded. I'll just admit it right now. Some of them are already recorded because, you know, we've got to take Thanksgiving off. We've got to give thanks. And I just love |
| 0:39.1 | the way that we have come up with for giving thanks. I think there's no better way to give thanks |
| 0:43.3 | than pumpkin pie. Like that, well, I shouldn't say there's no better way. There is certainly one |
| 0:49.0 | better way, but it's about as good as you can get. What are you doing right now? Thanking God |
| 0:53.8 | with my third piece |
| 0:55.4 | of pumpkin pie. God, I'm sure, feels very thanked at that point. And that's one of the things |
| 1:00.3 | we're going to talk about on this hour is Thanksgiving, getting through it, being a Christian |
| 1:04.6 | at Thanksgiving. Can you do it? Can you manage to keep your Christian identity when you're |
| 1:10.3 | with the family and friends and |
| 1:12.2 | sometimes with people you never met before who showed up and decided they wanted to engage |
| 1:17.0 | you on, I don't know, but I don't know, politics or politics or other politics. |
| 1:25.0 | If you want to talk about that, we got Rose Sweet to do at 888-3187-884. |
| 1:31.6 | Triple-8-3-187-884. |
| 1:34.4 | We're going to talk about just being a Christian at the holidays. |
| 1:38.1 | And it's weird that we would have to struggle to be a – |
| 1:40.8 | but a lot of us do. |
| 1:42.3 | I know I have many times. |
| 1:46.6 | And Rose Sweet, of course, |
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