Here’s how to keep calm around the dinner table this year with our advice expert’s guide to defusing festive feuds
hristmas is only universally joyous for children. At some point you grow up and it gets complicated. At least that is how it seems from the. They start to roll in around August and although the details and personalities change, the story always goes something like this: “I want to spend Christmas doing X, but my parents/in-laws/siblings want me to do Y.
If you’re still here, you need to prepare. It’s much harder to calm yourself from a point of stress so, just as you would prep Christmas dinner, prep yourself. Never forget what a great conversational tool silence is if someone is being mean to you. Those seconds make them squirm Now, let’s get down to specific scenarios: here are my tips to navigating those tense yuletide moments.I have a lot of experience with this one. We all know that any negative comment is really a reflection not on you but on the person saying it, but in the heat of the moment it’s hard to remember this.to put you down. “They are coping,” says Vahrmeyer “with difficult feelings by trying to ‘project’ them on to you. This is a powerful psychological defence.
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