Funny, I remember a blog post way back when about how Christmas is ritual emotional blackmail, a holiday which rather clearly declares that there is no existent

Funny, I remember a blog post way back when about how Christmas is ritual emotional blackmail, a holiday which rather clearly declares that there is no existential value outside of the celebration of "family", inadvertently (or not) taking aim at both people with extremely problematic relationships to their childhoods (abuse) as well as people who either have chosen not to be coupled to one person for the rest of their life in order to find meaning or who have issue building intimate, vulnerable connections for one reason or another.