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When family holiday traditions feel more like prison than celebration

My family expects me to spend every Christmas at home doing the exact same traditions we've done since I was five and I feel suffocated but also guilty for wanting something different.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of inherited expectations can crush the very joy they were meant to preserve.

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