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Do the holidays bother those of us with little to no FOO?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 672651" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Growing up, we had a HUGE extended family on both sides. One side always got together once in the holidays for at least a 24-hour bash (including sleeping over). Wall-to-wall sleeping bags, aunts, uncles, cousins, and often some straggler 2nd and 3rd cousins. I wasn't highly social, but the event was so huge and so unstructured that it was still fun. If you didn't want to socialize so much, you went and helped in the kitchen - and the aunts knew enough to give me a job that was more work and less talk, because that's what I wanted. You were surrounded by people that cared about you on some level - the kind who if your car broke down on the highway, would come rescue you, the kind who would find something nice to say about you even if you weren't being particularly nice that day... aunts and uncles and cousins the way it "should" be (well... not perfect, but done "right" if you know what I mean).</p><p> </p><p>My kids have never had that sense of connection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 672651, member: 11791"] Growing up, we had a HUGE extended family on both sides. One side always got together once in the holidays for at least a 24-hour bash (including sleeping over). Wall-to-wall sleeping bags, aunts, uncles, cousins, and often some straggler 2nd and 3rd cousins. I wasn't highly social, but the event was so huge and so unstructured that it was still fun. If you didn't want to socialize so much, you went and helped in the kitchen - and the aunts knew enough to give me a job that was more work and less talk, because that's what I wanted. You were surrounded by people that cared about you on some level - the kind who if your car broke down on the highway, would come rescue you, the kind who would find something nice to say about you even if you weren't being particularly nice that day... aunts and uncles and cousins the way it "should" be (well... not perfect, but done "right" if you know what I mean). My kids have never had that sense of connection. [/QUOTE]
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