The winter holidays are a big time of year for family. You take photos, somebody always wears a dumb sweater with a reindeer on it, you eat together, shop together, and so on. It’s also a big time for couples — do you go to one person’s parents’ house? Spend time together on the big days? Or purposefully avoid spending it together? And sometimes, even the smallest details take on a lot of symbolism.

Quote of the Week

A Christmas tree lot on Wisconsin at about 9 p.m.:

A busy, attractive, professional, unmarried couple in their early 30s who are clearly still in their work clothes.

Guy to tree-seller: “We’ll take this wreath.”
Tree-seller to couple: “Don’t you want a Christmas tree?”
Couple awkwardly look at each other.
Girl: “We can’t commit to that right now.”

After the jump, theology/dating, the bar Rumors, and pantological disasters.

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