When we first married, we were an interfaith couple with our families both very rooted in family traditions.
Our first Thanksgiving and Christmas, just a little over a month after our wedding, were both extremely stressful. We didn't have a mutual plan on how to handle the holidays and disappointment and misunderstandings surrounded the family events.
That first holiday season taught us the importance of talking about the holidays and making plans we could both accept. Don't let the holiday tug of war hurt your marriage! Plan now for the holidays!
It’s a sad, sad state of affairs when all you have left is each other! I don’t mean sad, being in the marriage, I mean when your husband’s and your parents have all died, and there are NO mothers and NO fathers. There are no Grandparents, Great Aunts, etc… Since my husband and I have been married since 2007, we have lost my father and his mother! In just two and a half short but happy years. Now it is our turn to carry on with old traditions, and make some new traditions of our own!