COVID, flu, cold during holidays: my sister ruined Christmas in a totally preventable way.
SlateCare and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Dear Care and Feeding, I’m sitting at home sulking during Christmas because I caught a cold from my older sister. I only see my father once a year because he otherwise claims he’s “always busy.” I don’t know my younger brother, but despite that, I have sent Christmas gifts and birthday cards for the last 18 years and never received a thank you from him. My family and I never get invited to their home for holidays of any sort and my father doesn’t have any kind of relationship with my children who are now young men. I think that, since I’m single and childless, she can’t quite conceptualize that I’m a grownup, and when I travel to see her three-ish times a year, I play with her the entire time.
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