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WhatDoesTheFoxSay?

WhatDoesTheFoxSay?

Hold your head high, and your middle finger higher
Dec 25, 2020
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Two words—mental marathon—sums up the ordeal that is the family vacation.

As someone with misophonia, I had rarely a day where I had a full night's rest for the week or so that I was there, having to share rooms with all family members on some days, with up to 3 loud snorers snoring for the entire length of the night. Such that even with earphones and meditative music on, and white noise playing at full volume with my other phone I can still hear them snore. The first few nights are tolerable, but then you start to lose it at one point and contemplate doing horrible things to said loud snorers.

On top of sleep deprivation, the saying "family knows no bound(aries)" holds especially true when you're all supposed to "have a fun time together" 😉 Touching you when you don't want to, and striking up conversations when you don't feel like talking. And believe me when I say that self-policing and having to put up a happy facade in front of everyone is a mentally demanding task. Because, in the words of Professor Sam Vaknin, professor of psychology and the author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, anything you say or do "can and will be used against you in the court of your family".

However, so generous has Mother Nature been this time round, on our trip to the Tōhoku region of Japan, that one week of agony might just be a small price to pay for what She has to offer...

I'm just glad it's finally over.
 
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WhatDoesTheFoxSay?

WhatDoesTheFoxSay?

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This is spot on

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I started writing my first suicide note while on family vacation in Jan 2024
 
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I hear you. I recently read an article titled "Vacation with family (meaning kids) is no real vacation". Couldn't agree more.
 
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WhatDoesTheFoxSay?

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I hear you. I recently read an article titled "Vacation with family (meaning kids) is no real vacation". Couldn't agree more.
I can't imagine myself having kids. On top of having to make so many changes to your life, you can't take your eyes off them for even a second...

Animal before road tripping with kids after road tripping with kids
 
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I can't imagine myself having kids. On top of having to make so many changes to your life, you can't take your eyes off them for even a second...

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honestly i think it would have done everyone some good if my parents had been less hesitant/resistant to take their eyes off of me.
I hear you. I recently read an article titled "Vacation with family (meaning kids) is no real vacation". Couldn't agree more.
which article?
and lol i don't even have kids and don't think i will. no one from my generation in my family has kids, so now family vacations are pretty much kid-free
 
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