Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Family Relationships
Reply to "Annual Christmas meltdown- how to handle?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]I would have some real talk with her in early January. "Mom, you seemed really stressed and upset this year. I think we need to talk about it. I'd much rather spend time with you relaxing than do all this decorating and cooking. It isn't important to me to have a lot of decorations. Your happiness and our time together is what's important to me." Then shut your trap see what she says. Loooooooong awkward pause. Listen to her random "reasons" and make eye contact while you let her talk and think aloud, without interrupting or responding to her. Then say "Let's pick the most important things and do them together. The rest of them, I think we should take a year off from."[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
