xmas always makes me cry

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i have hated xmas for as long as i can remeber,i love buying presents for people but thats all,i just seem to want to cry all through it,im not depressed because as soon as new years day comes im fine!is there a country where they dont have xmas?

my friend goes to centerparcs EVERY christmas. doesn't get you away from all that christmas claptrap but it's a change of scene.

Bah humbug. I don't like christmas either. New Year is even worse. There's just so much pressure to enjoy the christmas period that many of us end up doing the opposite!

Wow, people after my own heart. I don't enjoy Christmas, neither does dh, yet we feel "shot down in flames" for even mentioning it to anyone else. I believe in the Christian celebration of Christmas but find the greed and consumption that accompanies it just depressing. We put on a happy face for the kids though!!

Wow, people after my own heart. I don't enjoy Christmas, neither does dh, yet we feel "shot down in flames" for even mentioning it to anyone else. I believe in the Christian celebration of Christmas but find the greed and consumption that accompanies it just depressing. We put on a happy face for the kids though!!

Wow, people after my own heart. I don't enjoy Christmas, neither does dh, yet we feel "shot down in flames" for even mentioning it to anyone else. I believe in the Christian celebration of Christmas but find the greed and consumption that accompanies it just depressing. We put on a happy face for the kids though!!

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I don't find Christmas too bad as I love to see the excitement on the children's faces. The build up is always a nightmare - rushing around the shops trying to find presents that everyone will like, spending a fortune. New year is the one that gets my tears flowing. Ever since I can remember I have always found it a real let down. Since I have had the kids we have usually been asleep before midnight. Boring eh?

I'm not looking forward to Christmas at all this year - in fact I'd be quite happy to cancel it completely.

Dh and I separated earlier this year so that's going to be difficult and strange, and my mum is not well. No-one feels at all like celebrating. For ds we will be making the effort - he will be 18 months and just getting excited about all the pretty Christmas lights etc! - but personally I'm dreading it all.

It's not bah humbug - our family Christmasses used to be lovely - it's just feeling the pressure to have a happy family time when we're neither happy nor a family.

sorry to hear your mum isn't well moomina. It's good that we have our kids to keep us going isn't it. Christmas isn't looking too good from this end either. Step-dad in hospital at the moment and we don't know if he is going to live another day let alone until Christmas.

my mil died suddenly on Christmas day 5 yrs ago- makes it very hard still. Don't go in for all the tinsle and stuff anyway- think it's an insult to someone born in a stable!!! ( not total scrooges, just don't go ott!!)

i think that is it with me, my parents are in there 80's and i think will this be the last one we share, at least 3 people die have around xmas that i know for the last few years,i enjoyed it when the kids where younger and all excited but now there grown its just not the same,i think my childhood xmas where bad too it some how gets all to much

i also dont enjoy xmas, my mom always worked when we were children and the years when she wasnt working she spent the day picking fights with my dad, so it didnt really mean much. since i met dp i have had good xmas's as his stepmother really puts on a great xmas and they are probably the bext xmas's i have ever had plus having children changes it aswell, my brother has been in prison for the last 3 xmas's and will be for this one and i miss him terribly, it makes me very depressed on xmas day to hear his voice and be away from him, but i have to put on a brave face for dp and the boys- but i do have a sneaky cry.

oh god - have i killed this thread?

No you haven't - I'm here!! Glad to hear that your christmas's are happier now although a few tears shed. Having kids definitely helps. make the most of them while they are young.

yes i agree,keep old father c alive as long as possible,im ok on the run up and the day after,still trying to get organized though