Guess what? Some people cry while we

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Yes, some people are sad, crying, or depressed on Christmas, and often for a good reason.

What’s your reason?

My Mom died on Christmas many years ago. My Christmas is joyful nonetheless, because it is through Christmas that heaven and Earth are joined, God and man are joined, and we have hope of eternal life.

Unrelated to that, I am sad that my brother doesn’t come to family gatherings. It’ll be a big surprise if he joins us today.
 
Mine was awful as I have a big worry with my work suspending me some weeks ago and my wife not speaking to me all day except when she snapped at me. I love Christmas spiritually but everything else too over. It was hard to enjoy my children today who had a nice time because of it, my wife doesn’t mind treating me bad in front of them.
 
My son and I are mourning the loss of my husband, his dad, in August. I tried to go to Mass, had a panic attack, so it is home with a good book and Chinese food.
 
Story of Henry VIII fifth wife, “Young and Damned and Fair”.
 
Praying for the comfort and help of you all sad a bit (or more) here.
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this was a sad/happy Christmas for me. My mother passed in August. Putting her ornaments on the tree was hard. So was putting up her nativity set. But I got through it. The big family Christmas is on Saturday. I’m giving the nativity set to my youngest sister. I will offer the ornaments to my siblings and nieces and nephews.

Although I wish she was still with us to celebrate Christmas I know she is having a perfect Christmas with Jesus our Lord.
 
My Christmas was better than last years, when I happened to randomly find out on Christmas Day that my best friend from high school had died of cancer a few months before. I was already mourning the loss of my husband earlier in 2018 which left me with very few family and none of them anywhere close by, so last year was one for the books all right. This year I ended up going to a nice Mass, eating a lot of chip and dip, and then falling asleep for the rest of the day.

Many years ago my dad went into the hospital for what would be the last time on Christmas Eve night and died on New Years Eve night. That kinda messed up holidays for a few years and I had trouble with New Years Eve for many years. I am okay with it again nowadays but it took a long time.

I am happier now focusing on the religious aspects of holidays. The good part is that with no more family to put expectations on me, I can pretty much set my own pace and if I need to just take a nap or take it easy, I can do that.
 
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What’s your reason?
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I had no obvious reason when I created this thread except I was listening to this song on the radio, loved it and the title just spurred in my head out of the blue. After I created it I felt silly and afraid people will think I was crazy for an apparently silly thread. Then today I saw what you all wrote and felt so moved that it was not me who told me to do it and I am ashamed I was afraid to appear silly because of it.
Now that you replied I feel ashamed that I ever doubted whoever told me to make this thread. I felt moved to the floor when you guys saw something in it. I feel like kneeling and asking for forgiveness to all of you.
If Christmas was religious like @Tis_Bearself said maybe it we would think more of Christ being born in our hearts than on this or that way to party or the pressure to party. Christ does not despise nor hate our tears, while the world sometimes does.
 
Eternal rest grant unto the husbands of TheLittleLady and Tis_Bearself, o Lord, and let Your perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
 
Don’t feel bad for posting the thread. I actually didn’t know Julian Casablancas made a Christmas song. I saw him several times with the Strokes in the early 00’s because they were a new buzz band and were opening a tour leg for a more established band with friends of mine in it. He kind of fell off my radar screen after the first couple of Strokes records.

I’m so old I actually remember when his dad ran the well-known modeling agency and was always in the gossip rags with his supermodels. I also remember the dad of the guitarist in the band having the big 70s hit with “It Never Rains in California” which I loved as a child.
 
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Christmas time is sad for me. I celebrate with family, but, none the less, I always find myself in a very sad place on Christmas.
 
Please explain: A perfectly good bowl of water for the cat to drink out of downstairs but no he must come upstairs and drink the water the tree is standing in. 🙂 At least he isn’t in the tree pulling it down.
 
God bless your patience. I’m sorry she treats you like that in front of the kids.
 
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