Can commerce and religion go their separate ways this Christmas? (COMMENTARY)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. I don't need anything for Christmas.

I have always wanted to cook thanksgiving dinner and have lots of people enjoy my food and be happy.

The only person who invited me to her dinner to bring food does not have a usable kitchen (filthy, grime, clutter, non-workable oven) and I would have to drive 150 miles with food in coolers. It's not workable. She doesn't even have a clean table to sit at.

My husband and I have invited a few people in our town over before for Thanksgiving and can't get anybody to show up.

So I've given up on my dream. I cooked thanksgiving dinner all day in 2011, at a relative's house, sitting on a stool because I was out of breath and panting violently. That evening I was having a crisis and had to go to the ER where I was in ICU for eight days with pulmonary emboli (blood clots in my lungs that were life threatening). And nobody I cooked for ever said thank you! In fact, since then, the stepson (whose house I was in) has informed me via e-mail that he hates me and wishes that I had died that night. What a sweetie!! No more contact with him or his hateful girlfriend. I have done nothing to them.

I've separated Christmas and commerce a long time ago. Husband and I love to decorate but I have nobody to see them.