It's June OP.
Also, unless it is a family member insisting you celebrate Christmas with them, almost no one does this. I don't care what my friends and neighbors celebrate. |
Christmas Day is also a holy day of obligation, which I didn't realize til I was a teenager. My parents never went to church that day. |
Is it this lady? Because you can ignore her ![]() |
OP I am still trying to understand your question.
Is it that you follow a different religion and are commenting on people who think St Nick or Rudolph are "for everyone" and you should think so too? Why would you want to go to a religious or secular party focused on a holiday that you feel harassed by? |
19:12 again.
DH does not celebrate Christmas or other Christian holidays. I do. We have a wreath on the door. Our cards say Peace or Seasons Greetings or Happy New Year depending on what design I like that year. He will eat a chocolate bunny if I get them for us. He gets 8 presents for Hanukah. I don't get a Christmas present since my mother dies and admit that makes me sad. Neither of us goes to religious services. I am a believer and pray. I am not sure what his private beliefs are. |
I need more information. Who did this ? Was it family, a neighbor, a kid’s mom? I’m trying to imagine this conversation and I’m drawing a blank. |
Your husband's a total jerk if, knowing you don't have relatives left alive to get you something at Christmas, he doesn't pick up the slack. |
You're a "believer" who prays but doesn't go to church?? And don't know what your husband believes?? And you get upset about not getting a Christmas present???? You sound more superstitious and culturally Christian than religious. |
He's not a jerk if they don't otherwise celebrate Christmas and most of all if pp hasn't told him that she wants a Christmas present. |
And stop getting him Hanukkah gifts! |
Secular Christmas here is vulgar. It has been commercialized for economic purposes - gift giving is relentlessly pushed on us by media.
And all those Xmas cards with the family's children pictured on them... this started happening around the 90's? Because it wasn't a thing when I was growing up. At best a card with a mass printed update on how the family was doing. I'm not Christian but when did Christmas become a pageantry about the self, when did it co-opt the holy family? Next thing you know nativity figurines which can be customized to the family's likeness will be on the market. |
You sound like a snake handling hillbilly, lol. One can pray alone. Jesus did. Unity Church. My husband is very private. I don't know much about his family either. |
It’s June. Summer. It’s vacation season. Kids are out of school.
People are going to the beach, on cruises. Getting in the pool. Bar-b-que and watermelon. Not op. It’s Christmas. Forced Christmas. G-d help her. |
As a Christian who doesn't do Santa with my kids (but yes, we told them not to tell the other kids), I would never ever force Santa on another family. That's...absurd. |
You aren’t a Christian, but think Joesph, Mary, and Baby Jesus are the “Holy Family?” How does a non-Christian believe that Joesph, Mary, and Jesus are holy? |