I spoke to my best friend yesterday and she told me how rubbish her Christmas has been. She’s a single parent, no involvement from dad and has got two children with behaviour issues age 15 and 12, older one being autistic. Her family don’t bother with her. She said nobody’s bothered with them at all and they’ve all been really upset. We never normally meet up over Christmas but she did want to come round mine new year (I’ve posted about that too) but I don’t want the bad behaviour in my house as it leads to things being damaged and I’ve just redecorated. I myself am a single parent but have support off my ex and unfortunately have lost all my family to cancer but I have been lucky as I’ve seen other friends over the Christmas period. I feel like she resents that and not once asked me if I’d had a good Christmas knowing full well it can be difficult for me too. I said to her we can meet up next week and go out with the kids but she seems disinterested. She has made me feel so guilty and awful like I’ve failed her as a friend and I’m not sure how to handle any of this to be honest.