Have you managed to get through Christmas without a row?

[NovemberMorn]

Reading so many of the threads on here, peace on earth isn't always easy to come by.😒

No rows here. Single mum with 9 month old. Spent all of Christmas with my dad. It's been lovely. We just respect each others alone time and then when we come together it's just nice. We are both pretty laid back and easily pleased. I cut all the toxic people out long ago. 🤷

Yes by being single.

No, 2024 is the year our relationship started falling apart so of course Christmas Day was the day it all came to a head

No arguments at all. It has been DH and I plus two DDs and we have either had family visiting or been visiting family every day for the last week
But we're all laid back and get on well so I wouldn't have expected any disagreements.

No rows here. I've been really unwell since 20th and dh has been nothing but a legend. He's done everything.

Ds age 9 has been an argumentative little so and so today but even that hasn't caused a row.

Yes. DH and I rub along quite nicely. We laugh off most things so not many arguments.

Does arguing with the cat over who gets the pillow count? If not then no arguments in my house for yonks.

No rows here surprisingly! Although I need to avoid DM over new years as it is very close to all blowing up with her.

No xmas arguments here 😄

A few fraught words between DH and i today while wrestling bloody heavy plaster board, trying to get a ceiling up - but that doesn't count surely 😂

Yes! Me and DS have come away somewhere warm and left the car crash of my extended family to themselves. DS is 5 and doesn't argue with me yet. Bliss ☀️

No arguments but I wouldn’t on a normal day.

No rows here but it’s just me dh and our 2 teens. We live far away from our respective crazy families so we lock the door at Christmas time and just enjoy each other’s company.

No arguments, we bicker and laugh with each other mostly. However, we've both been ill with this cold/flu virus that's been going round so not really up to arguing.

No rows, but it's just been my DH and DSs and we're not a shouty family.

Do rows with 8 year olds count? Tired of saying No to selection boxes for dinner.

No rows with extended family because I'm a people pleaser and I grit my teeth.

Good to hear, so far, people have had a pretty peaceful time.
No rows here either, mainly because one dearly loved one is not in contact.

Sometimes, as a couple of people have said, it's best to avoid certain people, or them avoid you....for everyone's sake.

No arguements here, although I did work Christmas Eve, Easrly Christmas Day and Boxing day, so that might have helped 😄.

No rows with DH or our DC.

Slight falling out with my BIL just before Christmas but it was quickly sorted out.

There was potential for a falling out with a different BIL whose weapons grade incompetence caused several problems which I would normally have lost my temper at but I decided to rise above it and get pissed instead.

There will be zero rows next year as I'm running the show and we are not leaving our house.

We’ve lasted 26 years without an argument.

We aren’t very argumentative people.

Almost…until today..between me & my nearly 9 yo DD

DD “what’s for tea?”
Me : Those things we picked up from Waitrose, remember? (Salt & pepper chicken, prawn parcels, spring roll)
DD (like I’d killed her kitten) eww I don’t like them, won’t like them, I don’t even like spring rolls anyway.
Me you said you do like spring rolls
DD : not the cook at home ones, only the ones that Eva’s mum gets from the Chinese

This went on & on all through cooking, moaning & awful whining, despite me nicely saying to please try them & if she doesn’t like them, I will make something else.

Ffs, just fucking try them before saying you don’t like them😡😡 my patience only lasts so long with this sort of stuff.

Really...do you actually talk?😶

I think we have an argument every few weeks, usually about something trivial, it never festers, and the making up is nice too.
Oddly enough, I never argue with anyone else.

All good here. Had to bite my tongue with Dil but all turned out well. DIL and my son cook everything from scratch (including bread). I don't. I ordered turkey, stuffing and a couple of veggie dishes from 'Cook' but also cooked fresh potatoes, parsnips, Brussels and carrots. When the delivery arrived, DIL declared she'd be 'off home' if everything was ready made! I just reminded her what would be fresh and what 'ready made' so she could choose what to eat. Bit surprised when she opted to take home some of the 'ready made food left overs! 🤷😃

Me and DH get on really well 99% of the time so no issues. But the kids have been constantly bickering and moaning for the last couple of days so I really can't wait to get back to work. Told our 8 year old he was doing my head in today, not my best parenting moment...

No rows here. Having a lovely break

We never have rows at Xmas.

Why would we?