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"After a weekend of frantic speculation, reps for Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal say the couple hasn&amp;amp;#8217;t broken up. Whew! But oh, not all of us are so lucky. Holidays put a ton of pressure on relationships, as I&amp;amp;#8217;ve found out first hand. I almost always get dumped on some major holiday. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve had relationships poop out on Easter, 4th of July, Christmas Eve, and not one but TWO Valentine&amp;amp;#8217;s days. But the most spectacular breakup happened Thanksgiving, 2007. My boyfriend was Scottish, so we both came to my family&amp;amp;#8217;s place in California for Turkey Day. Mistake. A holiday weekend isn&amp;amp;#8217;t like a normal one; there&amp;amp;#8217;s pressure to look good, catch up with family, and make the entire thing perfect since it only happens a few times a year. If your relationship is anything but rock solid, you may be in for a heap of trouble. To juggle relatives, travel, cooking and a wobbly romance is a recipe for disaster. The guy and I ended up in a screaming match at the dinner table that was so intense my family shooed us out of the house so that the younger children wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t see us fight. After about an hour of arguing, we calmed down&amp;amp;#133;until later that night, when a debate over something inane turned into another catastrophe. My poor mama eventually pointed her spatula menacingly at us and said &amp;amp;#8220;Sort this out or one of you is leaving. At this point, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t even care who.&amp;amp;#8221; He and I broke up that night, and the weirdest part is, we went on to have a perfectly wonderful weekend! Once the pressure of being a couple was off, we could actually enjoy each other&amp;amp;#8217;s company, and to this day we&amp;amp;#8217;re great friends. Have you had a relationship succumb to the holiday pressure? How to you keep your romance afloat in a sea of tinsel, turkey and travel? For more on holidays and heartaches... *How did you deal with your worst break up? *What are your bad holiday habits? *Meet one blogger&amp;#x27;s ghosts of boyfriends past! More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Glamour on Twitter. Photo: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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