I feel like a jerk for not wanting to spend my entire Christmas with my in-laws. Here's the situation. My Mom, who I loved more than anything, passed away in Jan. 2000 at age 52. Ever since then the Holidays and Birthdays just aren't the same. I'm sure feeling this way is normal. It's not that I don't enjoy them anymore, but they are just 'different' now. Now that I'm married, I'm excited to start building some new Christmas memories and traditions of my own. I would like my wife and I to spend the Holidays together and decorate and do our own thing. But every year we go spend 3 nights with her parents and family for Christmas. Her family is great but I would like us to do our own thing too. My wife is so excited about us going to stay with them, it's almost like she's a kid again to hear her talk about it. Where as I am kind of dreading it. Do you think that I'm a jerk for feeling this way about the situation?
2006-12-18
02:10:44
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