By orphans I’m including everyone who can’t spend Christmas with their family, whatever the reason. Maybe they live on another continent, maybe they’re insufferable, maybe you don’t know them, maybe all of the above and you don’t have kids, whatever. The end result is: you don’t have a family to spend Christmas with.

I’m in this situation. And I don’t know anyone well enough (newish city and country) to crash someone else’s family Christmas.

Wondering how people in that situation deal with it so that maybe I can find something that’d work for me to tide me over this challenging part of the year.

Additional context: SO is really into it, feels bad when we treat it as just another day, so I feel the pressure to figure something out.

I’m reading every answer you share but not necessarily answer unless I have a follow up question or something meaningful to add.

Hello, im new to Tildes, and iv been very active in spiritual subs (from the other website) and i was wondering if its possible to have a page here as well dedicated to spirituality and all relating topics? its a great and very popular theme that only grows with time, im sure it could be of great benefit to this platform, thank you!

So tonight is Halloween. Obviously mainly a US holiday, but figure it'd be fun to ask what everyone's nights are like anyway. I think I've made it clear how much I love Spooky Season~

Anyone having trick-or-treaters tonight? Going to any parties (or already been)? Have a costume for the night? Seen any fun ones? Watching some scary movies?