The Christmas Family
Christmas is a stressful time. Presents, food, social activities.
Most significantly, it is a time for family.
And that is not always easy.
This blog explores what can make Christmas a difficult time in family life.
The roles that we have in families become heightened at Christmas time and can cause tension.
The 2011 film Arthur Christmas is a good guide for seeing this tension in a very exaggerated context.
Love: The Struggle of Every Man
The drive for financial security is ingrained in the male personality. This drive is well-meaning. It is there biologically so that men will overcome pain to provide for those they love.
Unfortunately, the drive for financial security can overpower the motive of love and become self-serving.
The film The Family Man dramatises this struggle. A successful man on Wall Street sees the life he could have had with a loving family.
The film is appropriately set at Christmas time. A time when the stress between family and material wealth is at its peak.
Is Christmas good for you?
Many people just don’t like Christmas. It’s not that they are Ba Hum Bug, they just don’t care.
There can be genuinely understandable reasons for this. So can a person who is just not into Christmas enjoy Christmas?
How do you have a happy time over Christmas when you’d rather it just didn’t exist?