Solo Without Your Kids For The Holiday?
Solo Without Your Kids For The Holiday?
5 Attitude Adjusters
If we took all the parents whose kids will be going with the other side of the family this holiday and put them all in once place, we'd probably have to ask the NFL to give up half their stadiums for a day. Talk about the perfect dating-after-divorce opportunity!
Seriously...parents who end up alone on a holiday are an awkward lot. If it's you, it's easy to fall into feeling sorry for yourself. Lonely, absurd...all the possible uncomfortable words can apply.
Stop it! The kids have it much worse. They are human ping-pong balls expected to pop back and forth between allegiances seamlessly. They don't want to be doing this, either. Trying to please everybody is a royal pain.
Here are 5 attitude adjusters to get you through if you will be solo without your kids for the holiday:
1. For a very short window you have no responsibility...this will pass quickly use it wisely — it's a gift.
2. You can lay on the couch for absolutely no reason, not make your bed, throw your towels on the floor, leave dishes in the sink — everything you tell them not to do — without guilt. Until they return.
3. You can go wherever you want, with whomever you want, and do whatever you want and not have to be home until they come back.
4. You can hit the road and be an adventurous visitor to people you never have time to catch up with.
5. Kids are telegrams for family gossip — you'll get all the latest dirt about everything and everybody when they return.
Critical reminder: It takes kids a few days once they get home to come back from loyalty to the other side. It's not you...give them a break.
Leave me a comment saying "solo on the on holiday"...and I'll drop you one back...because my kid's going with her dad and I get it.
Email Debbie anytime: dnigro@firstwivesworld.com
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