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Would you be sad to be on your on for a week from Christmas afternoon?

34 replies

Largepiecesofcrookedwood · 28/11/2018 20:37

Due to a complicated series of events too boring to go into, I am going to be leaving DH and DS at my DM's on Christmas Day evening and coming home.
Once home I'll be on my own apart from CrookedCat and possibly DDog3, albeit I will be working every day, until New Year's Eve when I will drive back to the bosom of my family.
Everyone seems quite perturbed at the extreme loneliness I will feel, and seems to picture me wandering Lady Macbeth around the house wailing and gnashing my teeth.
Now I get that it is Christmas but I'm feeling quite buoyant about the whole affair (apart from the neck breakingly awful drive to DM's and back)
I'm trying to appear stoic but quite frankly I'm not sure I'm pulling it off that well Grin
So am I a dreadful wife, daughter and mother? For context DS is a teen so it's not like we're still in the magic of Christmas stage.

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EbbandTheWanderingHearts · 28/11/2018 20:39

No, I'd love it! Grin

Limpetry · 28/11/2018 20:41

It sounds utter bliss.

SpringIsSprung1 · 28/11/2018 20:42

Love it. Would be in my element!Smile

HellenaHandbasket · 28/11/2018 20:44

Utterly amazing. Kids being loved and entertained... elsewhere. Peace and sleep!

Fleurdalys · 28/11/2018 20:44

It would be heaven for me

RagingWhoreBag · 28/11/2018 20:45

Sounds perfect! Can we all come?!

nomoremrsniceguy · 28/11/2018 20:46

Sounds like a great opportunity for some serious me-time. Make the most of it!

Skirtingboards · 28/11/2018 20:46

How can you be lonely when there'll be a cat and a dog!

Threeminis · 28/11/2018 20:47

Where do I sign up? Envy - absolutely envy

Titsywoo · 28/11/2018 20:47

Nope I'd be very happy. I'd have an amazing week by myself - I wouldn't stay at home the whole time though I'd get out and about but wouldn't necessarily bother seeing anyone!

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 28/11/2018 20:47

I’d absolutely hate it. I can understand why everyone is perturbed.

VictoriaBun · 28/11/2018 20:48

Oh yes and then go down with some dreaded lurgy ( imagined) and have to be off work as well !

shins · 28/11/2018 20:49

Oh bliss. Films and books and Baileys and lie-ins!

GreenTulips · 28/11/2018 20:49

What? Tidy house full fridge control of the remote whole bed to yourself!!

Sounds awful ..... chin up

Cuzcothellama · 28/11/2018 20:50

Oh God no, I'd love it. I'm jealous. Have fun!

SinglePringle · 28/11/2018 20:51

I come home alone on Boxing Day every year (live alone). I love it!

Weezol · 28/11/2018 20:53

I've done it for the last two Christmasses and throughly enjoyed it. Hung out with family by phone and had pigs in blankets for breakfast with a side of cheese footballs which I took back to bed with me.

Weezolcat and I played with wrapping paper and had big sleeps. I have agreed to spend the day with my excellent and much loved friend this year and I'm kind of regretting it a bit.

Singlenotsingle · 28/11/2018 20:54

Grit your teeth, you'll manage.

DorisDay88 · 28/11/2018 20:54

Can you let us into your secret so we can all have a series of complicated events and have some lovely time alone 😁

MiddlingMum · 28/11/2018 20:56

It sounds like bliss, apart from the going to work bit.

MartyMcFly1984 · 28/11/2018 21:01

My kids are still little, but I can imagine if that happens to me when mine are older, it will indeed be all my xmases arriving at once. Also dh staying with dm, preventing her from turning up to keep me company, I’d consider him a keeper 😂

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Largepiecesofcrookedwood · 28/11/2018 21:05

Right you are doris, pay attention...

  1. You need a job where you are classed as essential staff so it's impossible to get cover
  2. A close relative (in this case DM) needs to live some distance away. Bonus points if they are recently widowed live on their own
  3. Public transport needs to be practically impossible and both the far away relative and your significant other need to have limited driving capabilities (DM only drives a maximum of 15 miles at a time so would have to leave in about three days to be here in time, DH gets lost if he has to venture over the county border and would rely entirely on DS for navigational skills- in all likelihood I would never see either of them again) If you can get all these elements to align then you too could find yourself in my tragic situation
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DorisDay88 · 29/11/2018 14:29

Thank you Wood, there's obviously been a lot of planning for you to come up with this foolproof scenario
I'm going to remember it for next year - enjoy!

TimeIhadaNameChange · 29/11/2018 14:49

I'll be on my own for at least a week from Christmas Eve. I'd be quite happy for DP to stay away for the full two weeks, but I doubt he will. I've done it before and I love it. I'm an introvert, so need time by myself anyway, and having Christmas on my own, with no-one to please it bliss! I intend to open the Prosecco first thing, have eggnog at some point and some sherry just before dinner. I can watch whatever I want on the TV, there'll be no pressure to go to church, I can just chill.

Can't wait!

madmum5811 · 29/11/2018 15:04

OH took the DC`s away on a weeks sailing trip. I was working and to be honest it was bliss. I had a good clear out of rooms, spring cleaning, buying salads and cooked meat/fish for a week. Every room I did stayed tidy. No-one called me anti social when I read a book, no-one cared what I wanted to watch on tv. Just try not to show your gleefulness lol