Host: Why are the holidays and family reunions so complicated?

Speaker: Everybody has a steep desire that there would be this special times during the year. When families gather and you get this beautiful picture that you are not on the planet as an isolated individual.

That you’re part of a group that stays together and stay together for a lifetime. And people want that so much and often the reality doesn’t quite measure up. And so expectations are high and so disappointment can also be high. People bring histories and they bring histories with each other in a family reunion by definition.

And so people are experiencing what’s going on, say it on holiday today and through the filter of years and years of interactions. And you can get confusing for everybody it’s also interesting and that’s what we are here to talk about. It’s how making it go well.