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We also stopped going to Christmas day family get togethers also to avoid the traditional Christmas family argument - been years since the cops were called, but that just means like the San Andreas fault - we're due for the big one sooner rather than later. My family is dysfunctional as they come, and almost every gathering winds up with someone pissed off, someone screaming at someone else, someone crying, and the rest trying to either play peacemaker, or GTFO before the cops get called, breakables get broken, or we get dragged into the drama. Since certain family members died, the big gatherings turned into smaller gatherings and lots of people with butt-hurt feelings over not being invited to dinner or what have you.
And people wonder why I stopped caring about any of it. No family, no "celebration" no muss, no fuss. Not only is it less complicated, but it's less expensive. There's no point in dealing with a commercial fuss over nothing.
There's something glorious about quietude.