To have to do an ‘Emma Thompson’ this Christmas?

Small Dd has been ill for 18 months, stuck with toxic partner living abroad away from family, the love for my Dd keeps me going 💪

Sending strength to all those in hard circumstances xx

You’re not silly. Your feelings are very valid. I’m sorry you’re having a tough time. In the New Year you can approach this practically, but for now, allow yourself to feel these emotions and don’t feel that you aren’t entitled to. I think Christmas magnifies all our feelings of isolation / loneliness if they exist.

I am so, so sorry to read this. I really hope you are getting suicide bereavement support. Sending you love this Christmas.

A very sobering thread. Best wishes to all of you struggling.

I need to leave my husband but I have no idea how to do it or justify it to him.

My beloved MIL died last week. Am so upset. The dc want stuff and my phones been cut off. No money for anything.
Just walked and walked today through the tears. Xmas can fuck off.

I’m very sorry. Please do resist the attentions though. You definitely won’t feel better & almost certainly a lot worse. 😞

Currently watching love actually funnily enough, and just at the scene where Emma tells her husband to be careful with Mia, when I read this.

Newly single, 4 year old at her dad's tonight and will be at her dads Xmas eve with me picking her up at 11am Xmas day.
I do most all of the day to day care when she isn't at nursery, but he works shifts and will only be able to have her overnight 2/3 time a month and I don't want her to miss out on her time with him.
But I'm so bloody gutted I won't have her Xmas eve or when she wakes up, and I miss her like mad already.

I just have to remember I am lucky to have a job and a roof over our heads and a family to go to on Christmas day.

Sending love to all those who are feeling sad this Christmas.

@CrystalMighty👍it’s all my fault of course and has been since I first drew breath! 😉

This thread is exactly what I need.

I am Emma Thompsoning my way through the next week. I started a thread a couple of weeks ago detailing how I discovered the 18 month long affair STBX is partaking in.
Except it's Christmas and I'm keeping my secret until the new year. My DC have come home from different places and I have 2 teens living with me and STBX. I have to bite my tongue numerous times over the next week, in some ways I'm glad stbx is going away with his fancy women friends for the weekend. At least I can enjoy my DC before I confront him.
I've no idea how things will go after I speak to stbx as he owns the house and I have nothing so could end up homeless.
I really don't know this man anymore.

Chin up everyone. X

God, my problem seems so silly compared to the heartbreaking circumstances on this thread. Sending love to each and every one of you💐

Mine, is that it’s another year single. I would love children and a family of my own one day. But feel at 32, time is running out. I’m the only one in my friendship group who is single and has no kids. I’ll be seeing my parents, siblings and SIL’s, aunts, and my lovely elderly grandparents on Christmas Day. So I’m very very lucky. But somehow, still feel so incredibly isolated, lonely and unloveable.

This⬆️
Hugs to everyone who has contributed to this thread.

And always remember it's always better a week too early than a day too late.....

I lost someone this time last year, I'm spiraling but going away tomorrow and I've had to organise it all as per usual.
Feel unloved, unappreciated and totally taken for granted. Someone else has been paying me attention and I'm trying to resist as I know I have to but it's fucking hard.

First Christmas without my nan . She died earlier this year. I was there until the very end , holding her hand . She passed on my birthday so will have to Emma Thompson then too

Thank you- appreciate it ❤️

I’m so sorry for your loss, we went through the same two years ago and Christmas 2023 was only going through the motions for our then 3 year old. It does get easier I promise, the grief is always there but it’s less overwhelming x

Paediatric cranial osteopathy was a game changer for one of my granddaughters who wouldn't sleep and cried non stop. Might be worth researching.
So sorry that so many on mumsnet are having such terrible times. You are all amazing.

I’m so sorry 💔

This resonated with me. My DM has got more & more horrible towards me, I would described us as previously close. She hasn’t liked how I’ve changed since leaving & divorcing my abusive ex.

I said to her in the summer, after a really nasty comment she made, that took my breath away, ‘you really don’t like me, do you?’ & she looked at me, and said … nothing.

It’s official. There is now NO thread on here in which people will not try to shit all over the OP for no reason apart from their own lack of character.

I'm sure she'd prefer not to be called E.T.

You absolutely did the right thing and should not feel guilty. Kindest thing you can do for them. Keeping them alive and suffering is selfish and you would have been keeping them here for yourself not for them. Just keep reminding yourself that it was the best gift you could give them. That's what got me through...

I’m also mid divorce and we are still sharing a house for now. It’s been ok but still, it’s a matter of gritting teeth for the kids isn’t it.

Much wine for us all 🖤

Yeah ok tinsel tits 🙄

Virtual hugs to everyone (else!).

Today is the first anniversary of the day I got a call from the dentist across the road saying that they had called 999 and had hooked my DH up to an oxygen cylinder but that I should come as fast as possible. They were awesome, called in extra oxygen from every where they could, but it was a shit day. But happily, DH came out the other side, and all is well. The ambulance service were better than Batman. We roared through our city at 105 mph and it took less than two minutes to transfer DH into A&E and intensive care. But today is the day that I held my obviously seriously ill DH in my arms and thought this is the end. As a happy update, he's doing fine. To the point that I can be peevish again!

But today I want to thank all the people who saved his life. Today will never be a happy day, because it was one of the two most frightening days of my life. But I am SO grateful. Thank you, to all the paramedics, and St John's Ambulance trained people who know what to do in an emergency.