Topic : 12/13 Holiday Horror Stories

I am so sorry you will not be able to go home for Christmas. I hope financially things will get better for you. You have a great attitude and I love your faith. You are so right. Everyday is a gift. Each day is a chance to change, grow and lift others. Even though you are having a hard time, you still have your faith. Keep it up!

well i cant wait to see what makes your guests so naughty at this time of year dr phil ! but i have my own what was suppose to be a bad christmas for me but i turned even it into a good one, my second wife had a lond ongoing feud with my younger sister for many years,it got so bad they couldnt even get along with each other long enough to sit and have christmas dinned at my mothers, my wife wouldnt budge in her set ways, and i respected that,this one year tho it just so happened i was out of work just a bit before christmas, our son was 4 years old,it was all i could do to cover christmas for him and get my wife a little something too, so we wernt able to get a turkey no ham, nor any of the other trimmings for christmas day dinner,all we had to eat that day was a bologna sandwitch,well i really wanted my wife and sister to burry the hatchet just not in each others heads, hehehehe, but they were set 8in there ways so i respected that, well my wife wanted me to go over to moms and retrive some good holiday food and return home with a ready meal  lol, well im just as set in my ways as well, i went in the kitchen found something good to prepare for our 4 year old son got the bologna and mayonase out and made us a nice holiday bologna sandwitch for christmas day, and as i sat there at the table giving thanks to god that i atleast had that to eat and to please bless it for us, it hit me like a ton of bricks, there were in fact many people who didnt even have a bologna sandwitch to eat that day, my wife and my sis made up after that holiday, i dont know if it were the fact that my wife saw that i was just as happy with bologna as i would have been with all the turkey - ham - and nice trimmings or what, but i didnt let it keep me from having a good day to share with her and my son, and remembering this day was truley the lords day, and i knew eating a bologna sandwitch did not equal him being nailed to a cross so i may live with him one day soon,

where do you think this love you speak of comes from?

Did anyone even ask the people if they know Christmas is about the birth of Christ?

Seems they were all in it for the lights and bows. That's sad.

Christmas is for those who WANT to celebrate it!

 

Those who don't shouldn't! 

 

Those who do, should!

 

Those who do, shouldn't force Christmas on those who don't!

 

Those who don't shouldn't force their non-desire on those who do!

 

If my s/o didn't like Christmas I'd just take him out of the scenario, insist he keep his negative attitude to himself and find something else to do on the holidays without me...because I enjoy the holidays and I am going to celebrate em!

 

To me it is like anything else...it takes compromise!

 

If you love each other, you compromise...

 

Those who won't compromise care more about thinking themselves right than the people they profess to love!

 

Those who hate the holidays, check out of em then...and keep your mouths shut!

 

Those who love the holidays, enjoy them...and keep your mouths shut!

 

Let love lead the way and you will get through it!

 

Myself, I celebrate the holidays...but I also celebrate everyday I am alive, good, bad or indifferent...you get one shot to be you...you can choose to enjoy it...or suffer through it!

It is up to you!

I agree. Well said.

I am also an atheist that celebrates all the Christian holidays as it is my culture. It's all about family. Whether you believe in god or not it all started because of the birth of a baby and the celebration that ensued. I don't believe in the divinity of all the hoopla, but the in the 2000 years of traditions that followed. Merry Christmas.

good tune you sang to the first woman guest dr phil  hehehehe, seems too many people think that excact way.

Oh Honey you need to come sit by me!!!!!!  I dare anyone to show me a person that hasn't gotten a gift they hated.  To me that is just part of the fun!  I also thought that this was going to be a story about horrible tragedy, like she got raped on Christmas Day or someone died.  Getting an ugly sweater is NOTHING

Sounds almost as though Joyce could have been featured in the "spoiled and entitled" show a couple of weeks back. SHEESH!!! Grow up, lady!!! Based on the promos, I, too, thought that a major tragedy (e.g., losing a family member) had occurred. But a present that the recipient disliked??

I'm glad you are starting to feel better. Whatever works for you is a good thing. Christmas is all about family, and love and warmth. One doesn't need to believe in god to love the holidays because it's a part of the culture we belong too. Another part of the culture we come from is freedom.Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, that includes freedom from religion. Have a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, lots of Valentines, and chocolate at Easter.