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Hello again, KHI. I could use some help over here right now, because, I don't even want to open presents or celebrate Christmas anymore. Why?
Well lets see, my mom is upset because neither my dad nor my sisters, who are teenagers, wants to do anything together as a family. (My sisters rather spend time with their friends rather than their parents, which I understand. Or they rather stay home and be on their phones all day; which upsets my mom greatly.) I honestly don't know why my dad doesn't try to make an effort to do something, but I don't think he's big on christmas, because of how he grew up with his family. Therefore, I'm the only one who's willing to do stuff to celebrate the holiday, because I don't really go out much or ever get asked to tag along for anything. I even said I'd go ice skating/movies/holiday lights with my mom, but apparently, I'm not enough. (Which hurts, because it wasn't always this way. At one time, it was just me and my mom with nobody else in the picture.) To top it off, my mom pretty much said all this to our faces that she's done trying to do anything together as a family, because all she does is make money and our presents are meaningless now. My sisters and my dad kind of lack empathy about the whole thing.
So I feel like all the presents I bought out of the goodness of my heart are considered trash and meaningless. I don't really want to celebrate the holidays now, if this is how it's going to be. You'd think I'd be use to this by now, but my mom is really hard to please during the holidays, including her birthday and mother's day. I thought maybe we'd get through one holiday without shit hitting the fan, but no. And my mom works tonight, so she was already kind of upset, but my sisters aren't helping by eating pizza she needs for work tonight.
I don't really know if there's any advice to give me, but yeah, things are tough and I don't really know what to do about it. ;__;
Well lets see, my mom is upset because neither my dad nor my sisters, who are teenagers, wants to do anything together as a family. (My sisters rather spend time with their friends rather than their parents, which I understand. Or they rather stay home and be on their phones all day; which upsets my mom greatly.) I honestly don't know why my dad doesn't try to make an effort to do something, but I don't think he's big on christmas, because of how he grew up with his family. Therefore, I'm the only one who's willing to do stuff to celebrate the holiday, because I don't really go out much or ever get asked to tag along for anything. I even said I'd go ice skating/movies/holiday lights with my mom, but apparently, I'm not enough. (Which hurts, because it wasn't always this way. At one time, it was just me and my mom with nobody else in the picture.) To top it off, my mom pretty much said all this to our faces that she's done trying to do anything together as a family, because all she does is make money and our presents are meaningless now. My sisters and my dad kind of lack empathy about the whole thing.
So I feel like all the presents I bought out of the goodness of my heart are considered trash and meaningless. I don't really want to celebrate the holidays now, if this is how it's going to be. You'd think I'd be use to this by now, but my mom is really hard to please during the holidays, including her birthday and mother's day. I thought maybe we'd get through one holiday without shit hitting the fan, but no. And my mom works tonight, so she was already kind of upset, but my sisters aren't helping by eating pizza she needs for work tonight.
I don't really know if there's any advice to give me, but yeah, things are tough and I don't really know what to do about it. ;__;