uncomfortable doesn’t automatically mean I’ve done something wrong.
The Part I Worried About Most: Would Anyone Feel Less Loved?
This was the question that kept returning to me.
I could handle buying fewer presents. I could handle a smaller shopping list. I could even handle someone teasing me about my new rule.
What I didn’t want was for an adult child, sibling, or relative to interpret the change as a sign that I cared less about them.
That’s the tricky thing about family traditions: sometimes the meaning we attach to
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