Christmas with a difficult or estranged family can be tough. Here, one writer reveals how therapy finally helped her see that the perfect family Christmas doesn’t exist IRL.

Christmas with a difficult or estranged family can be tough. Here, one writer reveals how therapy finally helped her see that the perfect family Christmas doesnu2019t exist IRL.

How to survive Christmas when you have a difficult family

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I would long for evenings spent playing board games, watching TV or exchanging gifts. Or, rather, I would long for evenings spent doing all this and not ending up in a huge, vicious fight

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Because, let’s be honest, the perfect family Christmas doesn’t exist IRL.

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