Originally Posted by
Caramel 
This is the thing, though,
Bunny211 - we can take control and make our holidays and festivals a happy and beautiful time for ourselves
Yep.
My partner will treat the whole thing just like any other day off and get drunk. Then he'll say, being all disappointed, Christmas is overrated, it no different from any other time of the year. Lol. Well, no. It's exactly what we choose to make of it. And like anything else, we can choose to put some effort in, and find solutions and do things that we will enjoy, or we can mooch around in the problem and be miserable. I'm willing to put the effort in to stay in the solution. Problem-dwelling takes me to a bleak and hopeless place pretty quick so I have to work my program.