'When are you having kids?': How to respond to awkward questions this Christmas

From, ‘Why are you still single?’ to, ‘When are you having a baby?’ – here are some handy replies to have up your sleeve.

How do you protect your mental health and your privacy, whilst also keeping the peace at Christmas?

Christmas is for spending time with family, whatever that looks like for you, but what if you’re feeling slightly apprehensive about seeing people you just know will ask intrusive questions?

Queries like, ‘Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend yet?’, ‘Are you going to have kids?’, ‘Why aren’t you two married?’ from parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles or wider family members, are at best, irritating and insulting, and at worse, triggering and upsetting.