When my sons were in high school a friend of theirs stopped by on Christmas morning. I wasn't going home for Christmas that year on Christmas day and was having another family who were alone to join us for Christmas dinner. Well, the boys friend stayed and stayed, and finally I sat another place at the table and cooked some extra food (he was a teenager after all and you know how they eat). I said something to my sons in private several times about him going home to be with his family but he had told them he wanted to stay with us. I would have been so hurt if that had been my sons not wanting to be home on Christmas.