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When Your Child Chooses Someone Else's Family Traditions

My teenage daughter wants to spend Christmas with her boyfriend's family instead of ours for the first time and I feel like I'm losing her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shift in holiday loyalty signals the natural but painful process of a child creating their own chosen family.

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