The Sunday Magazine

How to survive Christmas when one spouse loves it and the other does not

Kimberly Noble explains why creating a family is the hardest thing any of us will ever do, and why it's especially challenging at Christmas.
Customers look at Christmas trees on sale at Christmas Tree farm in Chesham, Buckinghamshire on December 1, 2016. (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Oh, yes, here it is again. That most wonderful time of the year. For some, anyway.

In many families it is also the love/hate season.

The great Christmas divide — that fraught and perilous chasm of of emotion — strikes very close to home for Kimberley Noble

More than close to home, in fact. 

It's right there. 

Click the button above to listen to Kimberley Noble's essay.