Mom kicks off her annual post‑Christmas meltdown on Dec 27, during her yearly 3-week holiday visit, turning it into a tradition her daughter knows to anticipate: ‘My mom picks a fight every Christmas like clockwork’

There's something beautiful about knowing someone so well that you can predict their next moves. It's like being in a relationship long enough to understand that when your partner says, "I'm not hungry," it might mean she's not hungry at all—or it could mean something entirely different. You should probably prepare at least 1.5 times what you originally intended, because the moment she catches a whiff of the cooking, she'll get up with a sort of apologetic look on her face, as if to say, "I changed my mind." And in that moment, you get to say, "I know; here's your meal.

A lot of times, it is these small things that make life beautiful, but as we can obviously see, it can also be frustrating in ways I, for one, am not sure how to even approach.

Sometimes you just know someone so well that their moods stop catching you off guard. It isn't necessarily a bad thing, just something that happens when patterns repeat enough times. You get a feel for the rhythm of their reactions, like knowing which song comes next on an album you've played too often. It's not even conscious anymore, just quiet awareness.  

People slip into old habits without meaning to, replaying familiar moments like they're following a script no one remembers writing. It's strange because part of you still hopes for a different version, even while recognizing the same cues: the sigh, the pause, that slight change in tone. You start to feel both prepared and tired at once, ready to manage something that hasn't technically happened yet but probably will.  

That doesn't mean people never surprise each other. Sometimes those patterns break on their own, or fade slowly when no one's pushing them. But other times, it just feels like life gets set to repeat, especially with family. Not through malice, just familiarity. Everyone knows their role too well.  


It's hard to say whether that kind of predictability is closeness or just endurance. Maybe both. Either way, it has a way of turning even calm moments into quiet waiting, just in case the pattern starts again.

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