Christmas is my absolute favorite time of the year. I love the warm fuzzies I get from being with family and friends and sharing love and Christmas songs.
It's my first Christmas I will get to spend with my fiance. He lives in Virginia, so I'll be flying there on Dec. 22 and returning the 29 (as many of you know).
Well, this will be my first Christmas away from home...away from my parents...away from my big sister (she is 22, I'm 19). My sister is really disappointed that I'm not coming home for the holidays, especially since I'll be with my fiance (she hasn't met him yet, but she already has expressed her distaste for him many times). It almost seems like even my parents are now upset with me that I'm going, even though they are the ones who paid for my ticket as my Christmas gift (it seems like they are having second thoughts on this whole idea).
My plane ticket is non-refundable...so I am definitely going...but I didn't think my family would really mind if I went, and it seems like they do...
Well, here's my question:
Was it wrong of me to break tradition to spend Christmas with drgnwolf1969, the man I want to spend the rest of my life with? Or should something like that be expected, as family often cannot always be together every year for the holidays as they grow older?
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"I don't know you,
But you don't know the half of it..."
It's my first Christmas I will get to spend with my fiance. He lives in Virginia, so I'll be flying there on Dec. 22 and returning the 29 (as many of you know).
Well, this will be my first Christmas away from home...away from my parents...away from my big sister (she is 22, I'm 19). My sister is really disappointed that I'm not coming home for the holidays, especially since I'll be with my fiance (she hasn't met him yet, but she already has expressed her distaste for him many times). It almost seems like even my parents are now upset with me that I'm going, even though they are the ones who paid for my ticket as my Christmas gift (it seems like they are having second thoughts on this whole idea).
My plane ticket is non-refundable...so I am definitely going...but I didn't think my family would really mind if I went, and it seems like they do...
Well, here's my question:
Was it wrong of me to break tradition to spend Christmas with drgnwolf1969, the man I want to spend the rest of my life with? Or should something like that be expected, as family often cannot always be together every year for the holidays as they grow older?
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"I don't know you,
But you don't know the half of it..."