” So what are you becoming ? Still with Sarah? Paf, the question to be avoided is sent in the middle of the Christmas dinner by your aunt whom you haven’t seen since the last turkey on December 25th. In the midst of a depression after your breakup, your New Year’s Eve was wasted and you are on the verge of going to bed without unwrapping the presents.
We’ve all had to face the Christmas questioning, that series of awkward little questions that we don’t know how to answer or that we just don’t want to answer while the guests are staring at us.
Do you dread the Christmas interrogation too? What questions embarrass you the most? Which ones do you fear the most? How would you dodge the famous “what about you?” “? What strategy have you put in place to avoid the annoying questions of Auntie Claudine: the evasive answer, the little lie to embellish reality, the big myth or the frank answer of the necklace?