Festive season can end a relationship
JOBURG - A Midrand resident Sandile Ndlovu said her boyfriend dumped her in December 2012, just before the new year.
“To this day, I suspect he dumped me because he wanted to begin a new year without me. It is immature.” She has since moved on to a man who “looks like he can have a respectful and promising future with me”.
Ndlovu gave Midrand Reporter her ex-boyfriends’ number to find out his side of the story, but he declined to comment.
This is just one of many relationships that fall apart during the festive season. Engagements and marriages have also fallen victim to the quest to ‘start afresh.’ In an article, divorce attorney Bertus Preller wrote that the first two months of the year have been ‘dupped the divorce season’. According to the article, the major reason is because people do not want to walk away from the relationship during the festive season, as this may crush the festive mood, especially in children.
When asked what relationship deal breakers over the festive season are, Midrand BBM users counted bad gift ideas, endless expectations that are costly, attending too many parties and cheating at the stroke of midnight on new year as relationship killers.
