Divorced For The Holidays, Are You Guilt Shopping Too?
How Men Think
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
After spending hours and hours wrapping gifts this weekend, Amy and T.J. have an honest conversation about the amount pf presents under the tree this year. Turns out “guilt giving” is a fairly common response with divorced and blended families, parents trying to make up for the loss of a sense of normalcy for their children. We have the red flags you should watch out for and an incredibly helpful guide on how to navigate the holidays with what’s called “The 5 Gift Rule.”
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| 0:04.5 | Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Can we get Thanksgiving first? I'm hungry. What's up, y'all? It's Kadeen. And DeVal, the host of the Ellis Ever After podcast. This holiday season, tune out the noise and tune in to Ellis Ever After. On Ellis Ever After, we get real with our crew about family, love and marriage. |
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| 0:45.5 | Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, December 20th, just five days to go before Christmas, and this is not the |
| 0:50.8 | episode we plan to record and post today, |
| 1:00.8 | but we changed things up when we took a look under the Christmas trees and said to ourselves, |
| 1:04.2 | that is way too much stuff. |
| 1:07.4 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 1:11.7 | Robs Week, yeah, people go overboard, certainly last minute, late, go crazy at the holidays, and sometimes that's okay. But particularly, you and I got into a conversation |
| 1:15.9 | about this, but it wasn't just that do we go too far. We started to examine why, even subconsciously, |
| 1:24.1 | we bought so much stuff. Yeah, I started asking myself and really asking myself to reflect honestly why. |
| 1:32.1 | The why behind, there are way too many, way too many gifts under the Christmas tree. |
| 1:38.3 | And I said, am I purchasing gifts out of guilt? |
| 1:41.9 | Guilt of the last couple of years that have been pretty tough on our kids. |
| 1:46.0 | No question. |
| 1:46.7 | They have been through a lot. |
| 1:48.1 | And so am I subconsciously trying to make up for it by giving them more than they actually |
| 1:54.3 | need? |
| 1:55.2 | And what do you think your answer is to that? |
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