Christmas can be a joyous time, but if cracks begin to appear in your relationship it can ultimately become a pressure-cooker environment.
At best, this means petty family squabbles over who prepares the sprouts or tidies up the discarded wrapping paper – and at worst it can spell disaster for rocky romances.
Here, three women share their holiday heartbreak stories – and how being dumped at Christmas actually turned out to be the best gift in the long run.
‘I WAS LEFT ALONE WITH NO CHRISTMAS DINNER’
Artist and mum-of-three Saj Fareed, 49, was dumped on Christmas Eve.
I was a single parent when I started
