How Do You Enjoy The Thanksgiving Or Christmas Holiday With A Dysfunctional Family?

Enjoying family gatherings for Thanksgiving or Christmas with a dysfunctional family can be a true test of patience and understanding. Dysfunctional family holidays are a taste of reality that is a far cry from the idealized family holiday gatherings that we have been conditioned to believe the norm for all family gatherings - a happy, smiling family gathered together around a table laden with a beautiful spread of a golden turkey and all the trimmings - hands clasped in fellowship and heads bowed for grace or blessing. Unfortunately, most of us didn't just step out of a Norman Rockwell painting, and most family holidays are not such portraits of familial bliss.

Most families have one or more family members who are just eccentric enough to contribute to an air of dysfunction in family gatherings. Do you have a peculiar grandpa who refuses to stop burping because he insists that suppressing gastric functions can have deadly consequences? Do you have a spinster aunt who complains about ... more.

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