Every year, my wife and I have a huge fight over Christmas.
13 years, 12 fights. (We weren’t living together that first year, so we missed the fight. Thank god.)
Basically, she grew up in a household where Xmas started in October. They didn’t have a lot of money for gifts for each other, so the gift part was way reduced.
Instead, they spend months decorating the house, giving neighbors and friends tiny presents, wrapping presents. All kinds of stuff.
That’s not what we did at my house. At my house, we started Xmas in December after my Dad’s birthday December 1st. We didn’t do that much decorating in the house or outside other then putting up a Christmas tree.
Pretty much the fight is because I spend most of the holiday season thinking my wife is this insane Martha Stewart clone, while she spends most of the holiday thinking I’m an evil Scrooge.
At some point, it boils to a head, and she starts screaming at me about how it ruins Christmas for her to have to drag me through the entire process.
Which is, more or less, true.
On my side, I don’t mind doing more during the Holidays, I just never knew until this year how insane she was about the whole thing. October? Jeesh!
Anyways, we had it again this year. We’ll have to see what happens next year. After the fight we had me come up with a list of what Christmas stuff I thought was appropriate to do on my end. Maybe that will help.
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