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Thanks For Asking

AITA: Happyish Holidays Edition

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.713.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe to TTFA Anthologies here. If the holidays make you want to tear your hair out or cry on the bathroom floor, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. It's a hard time for a lot of people, and still we have to force a smile and say through gritted teeth, "Happy Holidays!" But the holidays aren't always happy. Most of the time, all we can ask for is HappyISH Holidays.  In this episode, Nora McInerny and producer Marcel Malekebu dive into AITA stories of holidays gone wrong. You can play judge, jury, and executioner with them.  If you need a holiday survival guide, we're sorry, this isn't it. But it just might make you feel better about your holiday blunders! _ Come see the Happyish Holidays Live Show: A Petty LIttle Christmas at The Parkway Theatre in Minneapolis on December 4th and 5th, or join the livestream on December 5th! _ It’s the most wonderful time of the year… um, but is it really? The holiday season can be complicated. Sometimes instead of cozy nights with hot cocoa and meaningful moments, we get tears, ruined plans, and nights spent hiding in the bathroom at family parties. If the holiday season hasn’t always lived up to your expectations, join us for Happyish Holidays, a collection of holidays gone wrong presented by Terrible, Thanks for Asking. Happyish Holidays to you and yours! Terrible, Thanks for Asking tells the real stories of real people who have lived through the terrible things in life. TTFA Anthologies are a curated collection of some of our best stories; released in seasons that focus on a specific topic. You can find our entire episode catalog ad-free on Apple+ or Patreon.  Created and hosted by Nora McInerny. - Find Nora’s weekly newsletter here! Also, check out Nora on YouTube. _ The Feelings & Co. team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Marcel Malekebu and Grace Barry. _ Find all our shows at www.feelingsand.co.

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by The Hartford, a leading provider of employee benefits and

0:04.9

income protection products that is dedicated to standing behind U.S. workers to help them

0:09.4

pursue their goals and get through tough times. For more information about the Hartford,

0:14.3

visit thehartford.com slash employee benefits. We've also got a link in our show notes.

0:20.9

Hi, guys, it's Nora. If you like what we've done here on Terrible Thanks for asking,

0:25.9

you might want to check out our YouTube channel. We have two new videos going up every week

0:31.9

over at YouTube.com slash at Feelings, A-N-D-Co. That's Feel feelings and co. There's a link to it in our show description.

0:42.2

So see over on YouTube if that's what you're into. What a sales gal I am.

0:53.1

I'm Nora McInerney. And I'm Marcel McNerney.

0:54.8

And I'm Marcel, I'm Aliki-Boo.

0:56.8

And this is Happyish Holidays, 2024.

1:03.6

Since 2016, we have been making an episode.

1:08.7

I think we took one year off because I simply forgot to do it.

1:12.3

We have been making an episode every year called Happyish Holidays because we believe in lowering the bar

1:18.9

and something that we know from our own personal experience and from working in emotional

1:25.7

podcasting for several years is that the happyishness of the holidays cannot be denied.

1:31.4

This is a stressful time of year.

1:34.1

It is one of my favorite times of year.

1:36.0

And it is also when I have a regularly scheduled mental breakdown.

1:42.0

It's a triggering.

1:44.0

It's a very triggering. And I feel like everyone has something going on this time of

1:48.3

year like we i don't know where i was like my grandma died or something like that during this time

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