Family Crisismess

This has two distinct phases:

Phase One optimism
Incurable optimism on the part of at least one person that the "Season of Good Will" has the power to somehow magically prevent arguments/fights between all those people in the family with well-known socially dysfunctional personal qualities and/or antagonistic issues with other

similarly-minded family members.

Phase Two realisation
That same senior family member hates being wrong about anything and gets annoyed that nobody kept the peace after all.

Last time aunty Doris came for Christmas she didn't leave until March because of the Family Crisismess