This is the most common reason for a family dispute
Ah, what is cozier and nicer than an extensive Easter breakfast with the whole family, everyone together, everyone together, everyone... who gets crazy with jealousy?
Because family weekends, family holidays, and family brunches are super cozy of course. But they often lead to arguments.
What do we mainly bicker about? In most families, there are arguments about the fact that family members do not talk but are constantly busy with one specific gadget and therefore have no attention for anything else. In other words: we get angry at people who cannot live without their smartphone, who buy tickets for some trendy amusement park for a ton of euros, only to see mobile phones in the air all day for Snapchats and Insta Stories. Having cooked for hours and sweating and puffing while slaving away with Easter bunny cakes in six colors, only to sit at a table with eighteen phones that beep. Those four hundred six photos that need to be taken all day because every rotten egg must be forwarded to neighbors, friends, and classmates. That kind of scenes.
Other frequently mentioned causes of irritation are televisions that are always on everywhere (are they playing football during Easter too?!) and also always waiting for the same person. You are standing with nine people, jackets on, ready in the hallway to walk to that darn petting zoo, while your sister is still upstairs with her toothbrush in her mouth and her towel in her hand. #!%(!#%!)*
Furthermore, we also go crazy about:
- The fact that there are always so many traffic jams because everyone goes to see everyone on the same Sunday and we forget this every year.
- Family members who cancel at the last minute, leaving you with groceries done for the cat's tail.
- Sisters who slide into the Easter table in YOUR brand new favorite sweater (and then you can't complain to your mother ‘because it has to stay cozy’).
- Teenage brothers who don't even get out of bed and at four o'clock in the afternoon still whine that ’eggs are disgusting‘ and that ’all the good bread is already gone.‘.
In short, it's always a party with the family, on those two Easter days. Brunching, walking, playing games, having dinner, lingering at the table, having drinks, joking, chatting... Oh so fun. But it's also nice when it's Tuesday again. Secretly, though, huh. Don't let mom hear it.
FACTS
- A quarter of the Dutch celebrate the holidays without family
- Families that have a dog as a pet argue less often
- One in five Dutch people never speaks to their parents again
