Read This While Hiding From Your Family
Happy Thanksgiving.
Welcome to Cheaper Than Therapy, a newsletter by Shani Silver.
I don’t “go home” for Thanksgiving. I live at home. I travel to celebrate the holidays with friends, like a real eldest daughter Millennial. Not only have I aged out of the “kids table,” I’ve also aged out of tolerating embarrassing and stressful questions from family members who only text me on my birthday. In my opinion, a “holiday” shouldn’t require an extra therapy session afterward. I think I was one “So Shani, how’s dating going?” away from throwing the whole turkey out the front door and lighting the dessert table on fire.
For those still pulling up to the family home with two carry-ons and a dream, I see you. I want a blissfully uneventful holiday season for you, free from invasive questions, cutting comments, and garden variety single shame that hurts worse coming from blood relatives. I am also living on planet Earth, and I’m realistic, so here for you wonderful Substack subscribers is a crash-course in not allowing your loved ones to shit on your singlehood, or your holidays.