Significant Others for the Holidays

Emaheevul07
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:44:01 +0000

We include everybody in the family photos we take at Christmas. I guess that has it’s ups and downs. This year two girls came to Christmas single who were not single the year before, so last year’s picture has two ex-boyfriends in it. But, they’d been with those people a long time (one was engaged and the other had been together 3 years and didn’t believe in marriage), the fact that they broke up doesn’t really erase them even if we wish it would, and it’s okay with everybody that they’re in the pictures. They were there, after all. It might be different if we were blowing up and framing these pics to display on a daily basis but we don’t do that. Not saying I disagree with excluding them… I can certainly see why some people would want to do that, although I’d hope they’re not excluding them from all pictures.

BF was included in last year’s photo, and I can understand why some families would not have included him because we’d only been together three months by then. But, I am glad he was, I love that picture of our first Christmas together with my family. We were so madly in love, it was his first experience with meeting my family and everyone was so happy for us, it was just such a special day. We could have just taken separate pictures or something, and that would have been fine if it were going to offend somebody to include him, but just saying… I love that picture. Even if it does have my sister’s abusive psycho ex and my cousin’s cheating ex in them. When we look at the picture, nobody is looking at them. There are 30 people at least in the picture.