How to avoid the Christmas stress-fest

A quarter of all Christmas family reunions end in disaster. But they don’t have to.

As they stream back through the festively-decorated airports, our returned emigrants will have high hopes of their first Christmas at home in possibly several years.

Loved ones waiting to greet them will be equally happy and excited — but, say the experts, the prospect of a big family Christmas can result in clashing, or even unrealistic, expectations.