I got home with the Christmas shopping just as my husband walked out the door

DEAR DEIDRE: THE Christmas lights are up and the festive decorations out, but this time of year makes me feel so blue after my husband dropped a bombshell three days before Christmas last year.

I’d just arrived home with all the food shopping to find him waiting in the kitchen with his bags packed. 

To my shock he said he was miserable and needed to sort his head out.

Over the next days, weeks and months, he flip flopped between wanting to come home, actually moving back and then going back to his mum’s place.