Choosing Yourself at Christmas: When Stepping Away Is the Healthiest Option
Cathleen describes the moment she realised that staying would mean betraying herself — and that leaving, while lonely, felt calmer and more honest than enduring another cycle of emotional strain. Spending Christmas alone was not an act of rejection, but an act of self-preservation. The full article explores the complexity of family relationships, the pressure to conform at Christmas, and the quiet strength it can take to choose a different path.
