So I 19F have decided that I would much rather spend Christmas with my friend and her family over my parents. Now there is a backstory to all this. It begins back in February. My mum 53F and I got into an argument late at night, I don’t fully remember the jist of it anymore. But what I do remember is after I stormed out of the fight and went to my bedroom my mum stormed in moments later and threw a suitcase at me which narrowly missed hitting me in the head. She told me to get out (for the night as she keeps saying) and take her car since mine was at the mechanics. I drove myself to a shopping centre car park since I didn’t know where else to go. While I was sitting there bawling my eyes out I was chatting to one of my friends about a book she was reading on Snapchat, I forgot I had my location on and so she asked why I was at the shops at 11pm. Long story short on that bit I ended up staying with one of my friends and their family for about 6 months. During those 6 months there was a lot of drama with my parents. My mum kept on threatening me with a lot of different things, would constantly block me on everything and basically expect me to fix everything in our relationship since she was of the opinion everything was my fault. One night she even tried to take her life while on the phone to me and continues to blame me for why she did. My dad 65M at the time was also blaming me for a lot. My mum got put on anti depressants and while at my Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award celebration he proceeded to tell me it was my fault she needed them. Since then I have luckily been able to secure my own unit and now live on my own. Now that I am back in contact with them again and have been for about 2 months? They don’t overly like my friend or her family as they believe they caused harm to our relationship. Since Christmas is coming up my friend’s family has invited me to spend the day with them, I would very much love to go as I genuinely enjoy their company. You may wonder why I don’t want to spend Christmas with my parents and that is because previous Christmases have been basically just us doing nothing, even if I have wanted to do stuff they have been on their phones. My mum is of the opinion Christmas is only fun with young kids so has stopped trying. I don’t know what to do and could really use some advice from people who don’t know me and wouldn’t have a biase on anything. Thank you on advance!
NTA I wonder why you would spend Christmas with your bio parents.
NTA
Stop spending energy on these people. Go spend Christmas with your found family. If you can swing it, do some therapy to figure out that none of this is your fault and you cannot fix it. Do not spend your precious time trying. Merry Christmas 🎄
> Now that I am back in contact with them again and have been for about 2 months?
Why is this a question? Have you or not? And if you have, why?
> You may wonder why I don’t want to spend Christmas with my parents
No, no-one is wondering that. Quite the opposite.