'The holidays shine a light on trauma. What’s beautiful can be accompanied by a certain melancholy for many like me, struggling with a loss — recent or not.'
One recent evening, while the old “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” played in the background, I eased the oversized box of ornaments down from the closet. I was swept up in the simple moment of our yearly tradition until a holiday ad suddenly interrupted, proclaiming, “... and the holidays mean nothing till your first as a parent.”
The longing was perpetual, and unseen to anyone but my husband and me. It worked through me with quiet voracity and morphed how I saw the world, and myself. As the seed of grief grew, excitement for certain things I’d once loved dissipated. The holidays shine a light on trauma. What’s beautiful can be accompanied by a certain melancholy for many like me, struggling with a loss — recent or not.
A brief, yearly museum exhibit with us as curators — displaying our lives together, and including antiques from my husband’s childhood, growing up in a big Irish-Italian family on Long Island. ” which has always been one of my favorite holiday movies, Julia Louis Dreyfuss plays half of a yuppie couple without children. They’re depicted as vapid, cold Scrooges who disdain the holiday. I never gave it much thought, but there’s an implication that a childfree home lacks warmth or love. It’s not an uncommon theme, but it’s magnified during December.
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