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Say here what you can’t say in real life - Christmas edition

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Rainallnight · 21/12/2025 21:35

If you have someone in your life who is driving you mad or making you brim with rage this Christmas, tell them here!

Get it off your chest in a safe space so you can turn around, smile, and offer them a sherry.

NB - this isn’t AIBU. All gripes are correct and permitted.

I will start.

SIL, I am furious that we have driven hundreds of miles with small DC to spend Christmas in your part of the country, including hosting YOUR mother for the duration, only to find that you are not spending Christmas Day with us, AND that you have not yet deigned to pin down a day to even visit. Furious, I tell you.

OP posts:
EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 27/12/2025 11:19

I’d really like you to crawl back under that rock you seem to have reappeared from

SwallowsandAmazonians · 27/12/2025 18:13

SwallowsandAmazonians · 27/12/2025 10:46

Excuse me but I'm reviving this because I need to say:

MIL, I told you I was baking a particular Christmas delicacy. I told you I was making it from scratch including the candied fruit peel and please don't go and buy it.

The fact that you bought not one but two of them and that one is half eaten and available on the countertop and the other in the pantry makes me feel like my efforts are entirely unappreciated. And yes, you may very well have already had them on the order, but I let you know well in advance that this was something I was making and bringing, and you could have changed it. I don't think you understand that for me this is the equivalent of you making an expensive and incredible beef or turkey roast and bringing it to my house, only to find that I've got the equivalent from M&S already sitting in the oven.

While I'm at it, I should probably take back the wine I brought, given that although it's good stuff it's clearly not up to your £100/bottle standards and will never be drunk.

I took the wine back when I Ieft! I did ask first and did not mention the baking.

ThatCyanCat · 27/12/2025 18:30

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 27/12/2025 11:19

I’d really like you to crawl back under that rock you seem to have reappeared from

They do this at Christmas, don't they? Mind you, I've been tempted, after too much mulled wine and goodwill, to wake some sleeping dogs. I never actually did, but I can see why people do. They should not!

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AutumnLover1989 · 27/12/2025 21:42

Brother, Christmas day has confirmed to me what an absolute cunt you are. You didn't even call mum on Christmas day,or visit her because we were there!! You live 5 minutes away!! Fucking grow up!!

Tabitha500 · 28/12/2025 09:37

To

Friend T - I’m sad that despite you knowing I have a serious medical condition you haven’t bothered to message me in months to see how I am. Also, when we needed some advice, going on holiday and ignoring us was more important.

Friend R - I won’t ever forgive you for what you did to me earlier in the year. I don’t know why you did it, but it was so hurtful, I thought we were friends. Friends don’t do that.

Brother - you are now nothing to me. You are the lowest of the low for what you did. I don’t know how you sleep at night. I will never, ever forgive you. Go back to the witch and rot in hell together .

Feel better now!

Alondra · 28/12/2025 09:53

I love Christmas but I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or had too many social engagements in one week this year, but I'm ready to call it quits and go back to my routine life.

We've had a Christmas Eve dinner, a Christmas lunch day, a significant birthday party yesterday and a christening today. A couple of friends have invited us to a NYE party and after a short chat with DH we texted, "thank you so much, but we are having a quiet one at home this year".

I'm so ready to pack up the Christmas' decorations.

Gingernaut · 28/12/2025 10:32

I'll switch the heat on when you start paying your way

halfpasteleven · 30/12/2025 22:17

Your moodiness with me and only me is becoming a real test of our relationship.

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