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[quote=Anonymous]Mom has a pre-Christmas meltdown every year where she feels like she has too much to do and too little time. It usually presents itself with tears and lashing out at certain family members (unfairly) and castigating them for not “doing enough “. The thing is, no one is asking her to do the million little things on her to do list. If anything, her meltdowns make everyone adamant about not wanting a huge elaborate Christmas - which makes mom seemingly want it more because she ends up feeling like she’s a martyr for the cause of Christmas (if she didn’t plan an elaborate Christmas, she feels there would be no Christmas celebration at all …. Which is just not true.) All family members are helpful but generally more interested in spending time together rather than having a packed agenda of “Christmas” to dos (mostly centered around adding additional decorations to the already well decorated house and cooking a bunch of last minute food that will go to waste because there is already plenty).[/quote]

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