And to think that the only controversies at our holiday table when I was a kid were Catholics vs. Protestants and Democrats vs. Republicans. Someone always left in a rage or in tears.
Like religion and politics, sex doesn't belong around the family feast table.
In my family, where we are politically divided between Democrat, Libertarian, and Republican, it was family manners, and family rule, that you leave politics out of the family table. I had plenty of bad inclinations myself regarding morality, but I confided with my parents about it in private. But that’s the problem, nobody has a lick of common sense about what belongs in private anymore, and some people feel that they are oppressed unless they get to share with everyone what they do in private, if you ask me, that childish, narcissistic attitude that you have to talk about your most personal functions in public or at the dinner table is just not mentally healthy, in fact, pardon the redundancy, it’s clinical narcissism. What’s even more sad is how much narcissism pretty much is a favored factor in the voters who choose so much of our politicians nowadays too.
It is crap like this that makes me stay home on the “family” holidays. I don’t go visit with any of them on these days.
I stay home, change the oil in the cars, do some yard work, clean up the house, anything. I have told them, don;t invite me, and don’t invade my house either figuring that I I won’t come to them that they will come to me.
They all know that to stay on good terms with me to stay clear on the holidays and let me an my children have a nice day to ourselves.