“I Opted Out of Christmas This Year — And My Son Didn’t See What Was Coming”

or explain or try to make them understand. I wasn’t going to have a long, emotional conversation about feeling taken for granted or unappreciated. I was simply going to do what I had every right to do, what I should have done years ago: I was going to step away. I was going to choose myself for once in my life, without apology and without guilt.

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