Do Your Family Traditions Need a Refresh? Here Are Some Signs — And Suggestions for Creating New Ones

In fact, this sense of duty is often a reason we feel guilted (even if we’re just guilt-tripping ourselves) into carrying on a tradition long after its positive effects have expired. “Tradition often comes with a moral imperative: It’s not just what we do, it’s what we should do,” Tara Ceranic Salinas, a professor at the University of San Diego, and Ed Love, a professor at Western Washington University, wrote for Psychology Today. “This normative aspect can be both comforting and constraining.”