Mine didn't. No holiday would make any difference. If I pissed him off he would do something to get back at me. :(

My husband acts enthused for awhile, then when he sees he has me hooked, he starts telling me how much he hates the holidays as they make him depressed: i.e. He diffuses the holiday for me!!Contol, as usual......

I dont see any change he is himself daily

My mother has effectively destroyed Christmas for me, and conveniently my birthday as well as it is the 24th.

I used to take my hubby with me and we would spend the night and open gifts the next day. He can be a real pain, but he always tried to be nice to her. Anyway, at breakfast a couple of years ago on Christmas day she made this really hot sausage for breakfast. Everyone had left the table except for me (and I was finished), her and my hubby. Hubby's nose started literally running down his face after he ate a piece of the sausage and he quickly grabbed a napkin. My mother dropped her fork loudly onto her plate, made her most offended face and as cruelly as she could said, "I think you need to leave my table. You are not welcome here if you must act like that." Hubby went to the store and bought cigarettes and then came back long enough for me to throw my bags in and us leave. Since then every year she tries to make me feel guilty about him not wanting to come up there for Christmas (I don't even ask him to) and me for wanting to spend that day with him instead of her. She tried to do it again just a few days ago, only this time it made me angry as well as hurt.

My husband has his soft spots, and those are the times that I miss. He has never hit me or even threatened to hit me, but he is or was very controlling, and twist my words around all the time to the point where I thought I was going crazy.

Mine never put it away. Every holiday and vacation memory from the past 9 years has been ruined by his selfish behavior. And even though I'll be spending Christmas completely alone this year, it will be better than spending it with him!