Holidays

<p>Not everyone had a strange, solo, homebound Christmas this year. Some people managed to somehow still spend the holiday with their families and have a relatively normal Christmas, a.k.a. a stressful one that got ruined by someone&#39;s crazy behavior.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kjy2rj/who_ruined_your_family_christmas_this_year_and/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;who ruined your family Christmas this year, and what did they do?&quot; These 22 people share stories of how their family Christmas got ruined by someone other than Covid-19:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NateGrille/">NateGrille</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I found out my wife was cheating on me at 11:30 PM Christmas Eve while we were at her parents house. I packed up my stuff, walked right by her family who didn&rsquo;t know what was going on, and drove 6 hours in a crazy rain storm to my parents house. So there&rsquo;s that</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/riverofdenali/">riverofdenali</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My mother got belligerently drunk, locked herself in the closet, and claimed she was going to end her life. Then she vomited and my Dad and I were trying to drag her into her bed. She then proceeded to get violent with me and kicked me in the face.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BlackHammer1312/">BlackHammer1312</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My girlfriends sister.. she has three young girls and a terrible choice of men, she chooses today via a video of the kids to reveal to everybody that she is now dating a well known junkie within our town. She has a very addictive personality and has struggled to stay clean herself, my girlfriend is now ridiculously stressed out and worried for the kids.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dakan420/">Dakan420</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>my mom decided that is better for her and me that she is going to spend these holidays with her much younger boyfriend (15-17 year difference) in an another city while her second husband (my step dad) is in a different country trying to work for us so he can help us with money and shit so here I am, barely 18, spending my first Christmas and new year&#39;s eve alone</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/oopsagainn/">oopsagainn</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My cousin exposed our entire extended family of generational abuse and trauma and like a good old traumatized family, all the adults carried on like normal and the kids are seeking therapy.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Knightmareco/">Knightmareco</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My grandma is into spiritist stuff, whatever, she&#39;s happy and it&#39;s not like the money she gives put her well being in jeopardy. We found out that the people to whon she&#39;s being giving money for years is scamming her for a very large amount of money, my dad and uncles stopped taking her to that place, and they called her (from the place) and convinced her that her family wants to do her harm.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She was very sour and barely spoke to anyone, that added to the fact that christmas was a very small meeting this year and some of us were there for less than an hour, we&#39;re not sure if that can be legally denounced as scamming and it&#39;s very difficult to talk to my grandma about that subject. People were bitter and worried, it was a very tense meeting.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/therealmoopdog/">therealmoopdog</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was planning to go spend Christmas with my mom and dad this year after my nine-year engagement broke off just before christmas (I just moved out, so I&#39;m alone for the first time in nine years). Then my dog got a stomach bug. He woke me up 3 times at night to go outside for a poo (he usually sleeps through the night no problem) and I discovered a pile of puke on his dog bed. It&#39;s not his fault, but I don&#39;t know if I can go anywhere today.</p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/VoteGeriatric2020/">VoteGeriatric2020</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My cousin, who bought Chic-fil-A so he wouldn&#39;t have to eat our homemade meals, announced upon arriving he wasn&#39;t helping with anything, got drunk before noon by himself on that same day when I told him no Christmas hallucinogens, and drunkenly screamed in my face when I told him to clean up his dishes and beer cans.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Di5cipl355/">Di5cipl355</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My wife. A couple weeks ago she broke the news to me that she had an affair at the beginning of this year, and wants a divorce.</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/vrosej10/">vrosej10</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My cluster headaches made appearance after two months of quiet. Fuckers.</p> </blockquote><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/oohkt/">oohkt</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>It&#39;s Christmas morning and I can hear my nephew, who lives in the apartment downstairs, throwing a temper tantrum because he thinks his sister got &quot;larger gifts&quot; from Santa this year.</p> <p>His dad - &quot;are you joking right now? You better be joking. Say just kidding. Oh my god, tell me he&#39;s kidding.&quot;</p> <p>It&#39;s 8am.</p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/munkUhms/">munkUhms</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Not this year, but last year my older sister was being a bitch and talking down to me. &quot;Seriously, when was the last time I even talked to you?&quot; My reply, &quot;Huh, I&#39;m not sure, maybe it was at your wedding a few months ago?&quot; ...she got married in May, divorced by July, now sitting next to her new boyfriend that she&#39;s introducing to us for the first time. They left. My parents were pissed. I had a great time.</p> </blockquote><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Alpha_Ryvius/">Alpha_Ryvius</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My manager, who told everyone that they had to work today and gave himself the day off.</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/liquidblue24/">liquidblue24</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>F*ckin Travis!! My friend is remodeling his kitchen and living room. Well Travis (who does hvac and electrical work) decided that it would be no big deal to go to work knowing that his wife was sick with covid. He exposed my dad who&#39;s a painter and my friends dad who&#39;s a carpenter. Now we all have to be without our dad. F*ckin Travis, you suck!!</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/outis2/">outis2</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Christmas got cancelled due to the parents having an argument in the morning. Told everyone not to come. Spent Christmas with my Cat. Eating uber eats</p> </blockquote><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/arrow__awsome/">arrow__awsome</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I stole my family&rsquo;s stockings and replaced them with coal. My mom couldn&rsquo;t stop laughing, my dad was annoyed and my brother indifferent.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Deputycoz/">Deputycoz</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Myself. For always acting like it is ok to do all the work, all the planning, all the present buying, etc. So now no one tries to make it special for me and I am just tired of doing all the work, so I don&#39;t.</p> </blockquote><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GoodbyeFeline/">GoodbyeFeline</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My dad cheated on my mom for the fourth time and she left him so this Christmas was interesting.</p> </blockquote><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LadyAtalea/">LadyAtalea</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Everyone except me this time... Everyone is yelling at one other while I&#39;m here writing this comment, hoping everyone will stay calm more than 3minutes...</p> </blockquote><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dylansanderism/">dylansanderism</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Myself. Ate takeaway curry last night and got food poisoning, so I&#39;ve spent the entire day at home hugging the toilet bowl.</p> <p>On the plus side, my abdominals are gonna look fierce tomorrow. So there&#39;s that.</p> </blockquote><p>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/da-bidness/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">da-bidness</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Well I got left with building EVERY single toy set for my nephew. And these aren&#39;t simple plug in things. Booklets with 7 bags of screws and wooden dowels that I have to twist and fit perfectly. It&#39;s 6 am and I still have one left. But that will have to wait.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>22.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Efilain/">Efilain</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My moms denial of her bipolar disorder. She is in full manic mode. I travelled 8 hours from another country to be with my parents on christmas, I was supposed to stay for almost 2 weeks, but the atmosphere was so toxic I had to get out after 3 days. I told them I&rsquo;m leaving, I couldn&rsquo;t handle her screaming and agressivity and overall nastyness. I want to help her so badly, but she flat out screamed to my face that she isn&rsquo;t ill, this is who she is. I have my own mental health issues and I couldn&rsquo;t take it anymore because she was pouring verbal poison into me every minute I was with her. I sat on a bus back home and arrived at 3am to my apartment, to spend christmas alone</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

22 people share the 'incident' that ruined their family Christmas this year.

Not everyone had a strange, solo, homebound Christmas this year. Some people managed to somehow still spend the holiday with their families and have a relatively normal Christmas, a.k.a. a stressful one that got ruined by someone&#39;s crazy behavior.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;who ruined your family Christmas this year, and what did they do?&quot; These 22 people share stories of how their family Christmas got ruined by someone other than Covid-19:1.) From NateGrille: I found out my wife was cheating on me at 11:30 PM Christmas Eve while we were at her parents house. I packed up my stuff, walked right by her family who didn&rsquo;t know what was going on, and drove 6 hours in a crazy rain storm to my parents house. So there&rsquo;s that 2.) From riverofdenali: My mother got belligerently drunk, locked herself in the closet, and claimed she was going to end her life. Then she vomited and my Dad and I were trying to drag her into her bed. She then proceeded to get violent with me and kicked me in the face. 3.) From BlackHammer1312: My girlfriends sister.. she has three young girls and a terrible choice of men, she chooses today via a video of the kids to reveal to everybody that she is now dating a well known junkie within our town. She has a very addictive personality and has struggled to stay clean herself, my girlfriend is now ridiculously stressed out and worried for the kids. 4.) From Dakan420: my mom decided that is better for her and me that she is going to spend these holidays with her much younger boyfriend (15-17 year difference) in an another city while her second husband (my step dad) is in a different country trying to work for us so he can help us with money and shit so here I am, barely 18, spending my first Christmas and new year&#39;s eve alone 5.) From oopsagainn: My cousin exposed our entire extended family of generational abuse and trauma and like a good old traumatized family, all the adults carried on like normal and the kids are seeking therapy. 6.) From Knightmareco: My grandma is into spiritist stuff, whatever, she&#39;s happy and it&#39;s not like the money she gives put her well being in jeopardy. We found out that the people to whon she&#39;s being giving money for years is scamming her for a very large amount of money, my dad and uncles stopped taking her to that place, and they called her (from the place) and convinced her that her family wants to do her harm.  She was very sour and barely spoke to anyone, that added to the fact that christmas was a very small meeting this year and some of us were there for less than an hour, we&#39;re not sure if that can be legally denounced as scamming and it&#39;s very difficult to talk to my grandma about that subject. People were bitter and worried, it was a very tense meeting. 7.) From therealmoopdog: I was planning to go spend Christmas with my mom and dad this year after my nine-year engagement broke off just before christmas (I just moved out, so I&#39;m alone for the first time in nine years). Then my dog got a stomach bug. He woke me up 3 times at night to go outside for a poo (he usually sleeps through the night no problem) and I discovered a pile of puke on his dog bed. It&#39;s not his fault, but I don&#39;t know if I can go anywhere today. 8.) From VoteGeriatric2020: My cousin, who bought Chic-fil-A so he wouldn&#39;t have to eat our homemade meals, announced upon arriving he wasn&#39;t helping with anything, got drunk before noon by himself on that same day when I told him no Christmas hallucinogens, and drunkenly screamed in my face when I told him to clean up his dishes and beer cans. 9.) From Di5cipl355: My wife. A couple weeks ago she broke the news to me that she had an affair at the beginning of this year, and wants a divorce. 10.) From vrosej10: My cluster headaches made appearance after two months of quiet. Fuckers. 11.) From oohkt: It&#39;s Christmas morning and I can hear my nephew, who lives in the apartment downstairs, throwing a temper tantrum because he thinks his sister got &quot;larger gifts&quot; from Santa this year. His dad - &quot;are you joking right now? You better be joking. Say just kidding. Oh my god, tell me he&#39;s kidding.&quot; It&#39;s 8am. 12.) From munkUhms: Not this year, but last year my older sister was being a bitch and talking down to me. &quot;Seriously, when was the last time I even talked to you?&quot; My reply, &quot;Huh, I&#39;m not sure, maybe it was at your wedding a few months ago?&quot; ...she got married in May, divorced by July, now sitting next to her new boyfriend that she&#39;s introducing to us for the first time. They left. My parents were pissed. I had a great time. 13.) From Alpha_Ryvius: My manager, who told everyone that they had to work today and gave himself the day off. 14.) From liquidblue24: F*ckin Travis!! My friend is remodeling his kitchen and living room. Well Travis (who does hvac and electrical work) decided that it would be no big deal to go to work knowing that his wife was sick with covid. He exposed my dad who&#39;s a painter and my friends dad who&#39;s a carpenter. Now we all have to be without our dad. F*ckin Travis, you suck!! 15.) From outis2: Christmas got cancelled due to the parents having an argument in the morning. Told everyone not to come. Spent Christmas with my Cat. Eating uber eats 16.) From arrow__awsome: I stole my family&rsquo;s stockings and replaced them with coal. My mom couldn&rsquo;t stop laughing, my dad was annoyed and my brother indifferent. 17.) From Deputycoz: Myself. For always acting like it is ok to do all the work, all the planning, all the present buying, etc. So now no one tries to make it special for me and I am just tired of doing all the work, so I don&#39;t. 18.) From GoodbyeFeline: My dad cheated on my mom for the fourth time and she left him so this Christmas was interesting. 19.) From LadyAtalea: Everyone except me this time... Everyone is yelling at one other while I&#39;m here writing this comment, hoping everyone will stay calm more than 3minutes... 20.) From dylansanderism: Myself. Ate takeaway curry last night and got food poisoning, so I&#39;ve spent the entire day at home hugging the toilet bowl. On the plus side, my abdominals are gonna look fierce tomorrow. So there&#39;s that. 21.) From da-bidness: Well I got left with building EVERY single toy set for my nephew. And these aren&#39;t simple plug in things. Booklets with 7 bags of screws and wooden dowels that I have to twist and fit perfectly. It&#39;s 6 am and I still have one left. But that will have to wait. 22.) From Efilain: My moms denial of her bipolar disorder. She is in full manic mode. I travelled 8 hours from another country to be with my parents on christmas, I was supposed to stay for almost 2 weeks, but the atmosphere was so toxic I had to get out after 3 days. I told them I&rsquo;m leaving, I couldn&rsquo;t handle her screaming and agressivity and overall nastyness. I want to help her so badly, but she flat out screamed to my face that she isn&rsquo;t ill, this is who she is. I have my own mental health issues and I couldn&rsquo;t take it anymore because she was pouring verbal poison into me every minute I was with her. I sat on a bus back home and arrived at 3am to my apartment, to spend christmas alone 

Not everyone had a strange, solo, homebound Christmas this year. Some people managed to somehow still spend the holiday with their families and have a relatively normal Christmas, a.k.a. a stressful one that got ruined by someone&#39;s...