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Growing Up in a Divorced Family at Thanksgiving
from Wicked?, A Terrible Life, & The Golden Age Of Travel | The Tim Dillon Show #472 · #472
3 min
He describes the experience of being a child of divorce sitting at a blended family Thanksgiving table full of strangers, and how kids should understand they're living in the aftermath of their parents' failed relationships.
- Tim addresses divorced people at Thanksgiving, saying blended families have a ceiling on love because most people end up being strangers.
- At a divorced family Thanksgiving, someone will literally ask "who are you?" because you'll be introducing yourself to people you just met through your parent's new partner.
- Tim recommends hitting multiple Thanksgiving dinners instead of committing to one—dessert with other people, don't get in too deep.
- Young listeners sitting at a divorced parent's Thanksgiving will be cornered by complete strangers—some woman their dad is dating, or her relatives—and won't know who they are.
- Tim tells kids not to be rude to these strangers even if they make a nice dinner, but to understand the real situation: your family has failed and you're living in the ruins of it.
- Even if the mashed potatoes are good, know that you're in the wreckage of two people's lives.