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Christmas

  • 04-10-2015 7:23pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi

    I am an only child to a single mam. She always loved me arriving home for christmas in 2013 when I lived in Poland/2014 when I lived in Glasgow and before now I've felt I couldnt do anything other than be in Sligo for christmas, new year etc cos I couldnt leave her alone

    Now I discover tha this year she wants to go to my cousins in Surrey and not be with me for christmas. Not only that, in our family its clear I would spend christmas alone.

    I've spent new years at home just to be with her and never told her...dont mind but like shes leaving me to spend the day totally alone....

    I dont wanna stay in UAE which is where Ill be moving....either way ill be spending chrsimas alone.
    Dont even know what I want


Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    Go to Surrey? Why do you say it's clear you would be alone?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Didn't you post about this issue before? But it was you who wanted to be away from your mother for Christmas as she was horrible to you for so many years. Why are you now upset that she has made alternative plans? Maybe she thinks you won't be coming home? Sorry if I'm wrong but your post is similar to one I read here recently.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    One of my best Christmas was alone in Australia, a few of us banded together cooked a big dinner and had a orphans Christmas. We even invited the less sociable loners to join us, well because it's Christmas and nobody should spend it alone.

    What I'm trying to say is, if you don't want to go to Surrey don't blame you're mum for that. In fairness she probably wants someone else to make the big effort for a change. I'm sure you have friends in the UAE who are in the same boat as you, surely you could all put you're heads together and come up with something.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Your post is a bit incoherent and hard to follow - maybe communication isn't your strongest point? I'm taking from this that you've now got a job in the UAE. Maybe your mum has decided to go to your cousin's place in Surrey because she assumed you'd be staying out there for Christmas and didn't want to be on her own? You know, this all could be solved very easily with an actual conversation with her. If you're living in the UAE now, wouldn't it be as easy to fly into London and make your way to Surrey for Christmas?


  • Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    cos93 wrote: »
    I've spent new years at home just to be with her and never told her...

    Yes, why can't you go to Surrey?

    When I read the first half of your post, I genuinely thought it was going to end with "I really don't want to have to go to Sligo AGAIN this year".

    Maybe she thinks she's doing you a favour but not obliging you to travel to Sligo every Christmas. Talk to her.


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