Family is everything, we are told more often than not. It's the most important connection we have to other people. Blood is thicker than water and all that. And the holidays are the time to travel long distances, get stuck in airports and traffic jams, and spend lots of money just to be with those very special and precious people, supposedly. So I was surprised to find the following advice in an article online entitled "How to Survive Thanksgiving With Your Family": "Remember, there’s no reason for you to go visit your family for Thanksgiving if that’s not what you want to do. The decision to stay away might make your mom angry — but that doesn’t mean you should be sad, too. 'It’s a radical thought that someone else could be upset and you can be as happy as you were before they got upset,' psychologist Dr. Lindsay Gibson told British newspaper The Guardian in 2021."
I wonder if Dr. Gibson has any friends.
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