Creating Peace With Relatives During the Holidays
For some reason we allow the demands and expectations of family members to be the source of unhappiness and stress. Most people dread November and December for this reason. For years I secretly wanted to escape to a far-off, sunny island where I could just be myself and not think about or care what my relatives where thinking or saying. Instead, each year I would bustle with false joviality through the holidays, determined that it was this year that would be merry.