CNU-My daughter-in-law said Christmas would be easier if I stayed away, and my son did not even raise his eyes to defend me. So I stayed home, alone, exactly as requested. …

He did not lift his head.

Then she looked back at me and said, in front of my grandchildren, in my house, after eating my wife’s holiday meal, “Please don’t make Christmas complicated. The truth is, you’re troublesome. And the kids don’t need to spend every holiday listening to the same old stories and tension they don’t understand.”

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