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Old Dec 20, 2014, 05:22 AM
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anyone else spending christmas alone.

let's use this thread to cheer each other up. make suggestions of things we can do to make things go faster

sounds like that works for me

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Old Dec 20, 2014, 10:08 AM
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I am spending Christmas alone also. You're not alone. We're supposed to get hammered with a winter storm so shoveling the driveway should keep me busy so I don't think about it.
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Old Dec 20, 2014, 10:12 AM
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just another day.
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Old Dec 20, 2014, 11:22 AM
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Yep, just another day.
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Old Dec 20, 2014, 11:46 AM
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I am spending Christmas alone and i will cheer myself up by thinking of all the family squabbles i am missing. I live in Canada so the weather is often nasty on Christmas. Also, i take the bus and service is reduced on that day. It is also prime flu season and a couple years when i made plans with people they just ended up cancelled due to sickness. All reasons to stay home and enjoy my cozy home and my sweet puppy. I'm looking forward to it!

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Old Dec 20, 2014, 02:58 PM
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I am staying with friends right now but my children and granddaughter will be elsewhere. I am starting to have a hard time with being alon . It tends to make me isolate mor . I know it is not good for me but its hard to make yourself go anywhere when you are alone
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Old Dec 20, 2014, 03:02 PM
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I wish I was!!!!


I had a solo Christmas in 2012 and it was cool. I was planning on staying home alone again this year, as I have a no contact rule with my "brother" and he's in the country this festive season again.


But my siblings and their families have decided that they're coming to our house so I'm going to be spending it with my bff instead.


I was toying with the idea of just locking myself up in my room for the day, but that would raise more awkward questions among the kiddos than my absence would. And I'm not looking to stir any drama or tension for anybody.


I honestly wish I could spend it alone though, especially since its gonna be perfect movie marathon weather this year.
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Old Dec 21, 2014, 04:48 AM
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I am sorry if anyone feels lonely.
I wish I could be alone. My kids are fine but my Mom, Dad and brother are coming over for dinner. They bug me, trigger me, anger me, and irritate me.
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Old Dec 21, 2014, 06:58 AM
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I am sorry if anyone feels lonely.
I wish I could be alone. My kids are fine but my Mom, Dad and brother are coming over for dinner. They bug me, trigger me, anger me, and irritate me.


i'm sorry, valentina

your family sound exactly like mine. triggering me and not accepting me for who i am

but this year i don't have to put up with them. they don't want me around. and i suppose when i think of it like that, it makes it seem a lot more tolerable
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Old Dec 21, 2014, 06:44 PM
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I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I really want to be alone this year, but my darling kids and estranged wife are going to be here. Normally I'd reach for the wine/beer/spirits/anything to get me through the day but with the meds i'm on now, alcohol seems like a pretty dangerous option. I guess i'll just keep telling myself "It's just another day. It's just another day".
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Old Dec 21, 2014, 08:01 PM
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Spending the holiday in my apartment hanging out. In the past I've always been the one to travel to another family members' house. The closest person I'm related to is over 200 miles and the next closest is another 300 miles on top of that. (This can happen when you live in Maine). This year, I'm just not up for it. I have really been trying to establish some stability and holiday travel does not fit in to that. Besides, I'm super broke anyway. I can't afford the travel let alone the gifts for everyone on the other end. My sister is all pissed off at me for not coming to her house, but oh well. I'm not going to let it get to me. I'm going to eat ice cream and do a marathon of Archer. That's my plan.
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Old Dec 21, 2014, 08:16 PM
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I have spent most holidays in my life by myself. Sometimes I felt depressed alone. But much of the time I felt OK. Sometimes I even felt happy, when I allowed myself to be that way.
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Old Dec 22, 2014, 01:35 PM
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I am going through a rough time right now, depressed. I really dont look forward to spending the holidays around my family. I am not in the mood to be around a lot of "happy" people when I am feeling miserable myself. So I am not alone over the holidays, but right now, I really wish I could be...
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Old Dec 22, 2014, 02:07 PM
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I am going through a rough time right now, depressed. I really dont look forward to spending the holidays around my family. I am not in the mood to be around a lot of "happy" people when I am feeling miserable myself. So I am not alone over the holidays, but right now, I really wish I could be...


i know what you mean.

i soon get pretty sick of people telling me- oh you should be happy, you should have the holiday spirit, you should be greatful you have a home for the holidays, and i am.... it's just hard when you don't have anything to look forward to about it accept crying yourself crazy
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Old Dec 22, 2014, 02:19 PM
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I've spent the last 10 or so Christmases alone and sometimes it bothers me, other times it doesn't. So this year I'm making a giant pan of chili and taking it down to a church that feeds the hungry. On Christmas Day I will be serving my chili to people and hope they like it!! If really hungry people won't eat my chili, well then it might end up being a depressing Christmas after all
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Old Dec 22, 2014, 02:19 PM
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I know I am lucky to have a big family, but it gets too intense for me over the holidays, and I dont get a break. We celebrate x-mas from 24th of december through to the 27th here in Norway where I am at. Big-time partying also... all in all a good break in the middle of the very dark winters we have here. But still I am just not in shape for all this merry-making! And it makes me feel ekstra lonely when everybody around me is so happy. (Well,, maybe they are not, but it sure looks that way...)
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