The Uninvited Guest

This Christmas will be when we get our marriage back on track.

After all, we’ve got several days of family togetherness with the rest of the world shut out. Right?

Wrong.

When my wife returns home with her work colleague on Christmas Eve, nothing I do or say will change her mind about having invited him to spend Christmas with us.

‘He shouldn’t be alone,’ she insists, ‘it’s the first Christmas he’s being forced to spend without his wife and son.’ She gives me a look that affirms the subject isn’t up for discussion. Then he walks into the room, making it impossible for me to take the argument further.

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