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Happyish Holidays 2022

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

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

4.713.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

‘Tis the season! Our terrible holiday tradition is back, this time with more of your painful, sad, awkward holiday stories. Plus: boundary setting advice from Melissa Urban and a fiery Hanukkah story from Vanessa Zoltan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi Nora, I had to share a awful, terrible, no good, very bad holiday experience.

0:15.0

So my first Christmas Eve without my husband, I went to a bar.

0:20.6

My last Christmas was terrible.

0:25.8

If the holidays are hard for you, you're not alone.

0:30.0

But isn't this the most wonderful time of the year?

0:34.0

A time of wonder and amazement, a time of giving?

0:37.8

Of course it is, but like any good infomercial will tell you, wait, there's more.

0:46.0

For a lot of people, this isn't the happiest time of year.

0:49.8

It's a time of the year or at best it's a happy-ish time of year.

0:56.2

A time that is tinged with sadness, rusted with lingering trauma stained with the tears of

1:02.0

yesterday, you get it.

1:04.7

About six years ago on Christmas, my, I think I was visiting home and it was first Christmas

1:18.8

that my mom, new boyfriend, was going to send us, she'd ask if it was a case, she'd

1:26.5

come tonight, we said yes, we were awkward but we were looking forward to it.

1:33.8

I wake up Christmas morning and in my mid-20s, my brothers in high school, just the two

1:41.0

of us wake up and my mom is not there.

1:45.9

My, her, my friend is not there and we get a little note on the kitchen table that says,

1:52.9

went to ER, text me, love, mom, and in the middle of the night, my mom, my friend had a green,

2:04.9

bleeds, horrible, horrible headache, they went to ER and then I'm just sitting, a life

2:12.5

of flight ed out to a bigger hospital and spent lovely, lovely Christmas in the stroke

2:21.4

ward.

2:22.4

My brother and I were kind of like, what are we doing now?

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