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KatieBride06
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parents newly divorced. how do you divvy up holiday time?
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my parents just split up in September so everything is very fresh. but luckily they are able to get along well and want to still get together some as an entire family over the holidays. i'm just wondering how other families work out their split visiting time situations.
we're planning on Christmas Eve at Dad's with his family. Christmas morning at Mom's (but Dad will come over for breakfast). I think we'll do gifts with them individually though. Christmas day/night with Mom's family, but Dad wants to swing by to say hello. No one is really on bad terms, it's just more awkwardness.
Re: parents newly divorced. how do you divvy up holiday time?
DH's parents are divorced and re-married, and live in the same general area, near my parents.
We sleep over at my parents Christmas Eve and do gifts in the morning.
Then we go visit his dad and his dad's family and do gifts.
Then we go back to my parents to eat dinner (we eat T-giving with his dad).
Then Christmas night or the next day we go visit his mom. His mom eats with his stepdad's family, so we don't feel a strong family pull to join in.
Christmas Eve my H and I spend with my Mother. We have dinner and exchange gifts. Christmas morning is spent with his parents (they are not divorced) then Christmas afternoon is spent at his Aunt's house (parents and siblings come along) then Christmas evening is spent with my Father and my Step-mom.
My mom is still very bitter about the divorce that occurred roughly 22 years ago, so count your blessings they've ended things well. If I mention my father my mother flips out - you can imagine how our wedding was LOL.
Good luck this year, it's a tough transition to make!
This is when you start alternating the holidays with your InLaws. That way you only have to divie up between 2 people.
But IF you have to visit all of them (ie you bow to pressure), then remember that December 26th is Boxing Day. Use it.