I also greatly recommend staying the hell off social media. You’ll tell yourself it’s no big deal, it’s fine, but the winter holidays, along with Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, are hell for people without traditional families. It’s just a sea of people posting about how much they love their families and photos of them doing normal family things. It’s totally possible their families are as complex and painful as yours, but this will not occur to you while you’re sifting through photos of them playing Monopoly with a bunch of elderly people you’ll never meet.
