From a different perspective: My sisters and I no longer attend services at the church where we were raised (with the rare exception of some funerals.) It’s partly due to some events there that were icky (I’ll refrain, on this thread, from calling them traumatic). Anyway, none of us have ANY desire to share any of this with our parents, who derive strength from their faith and their community. But yeah, a Christmas Eve service at my childhood church is something I don’t plan to ever do again in my life.
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