While plenty of people love spending time with their family over Thanksgiving, not everyone’s holiday festivities will be filled with happiness and joy.
A new survey conducted by online estate planning platform Trust & Will finds that 40% of families will have some sort of disagreement over the Thanksgiving holiday, with one-third saying the fights are so bad it’s caused a longtime rift in the family.
So, what are folks fighting about? Perhaps not surprisingly, the most likely source of holiday conflict is politics, with 34% saying it’s caused a problem, with past family grievances (32%), relationships (25%), finances (25%) and parenting (17%) rounding out the top five.
However, it seems certain topics can be a bigger issue to certain generations than to others. The survey finds that overall, Gen Z is the most likely generation to be involved in holiday arguments, with 57% owning up to that. Meanwhile, 37% of millennials say relationships are the biggest source of holiday conflict, while 36% of baby boomers blame politics and 32% of Gen X say past grievances are the biggest issue.
Finally, the Silent Generation don’t seem to be fighting all that much, with only 26% saying they’ve been involved in holiday conflicts. Wanna bet they caused at least one though …