I found a link to this picture earlier, wherein a woman laments her estrangement from her adult child due to (ostensibly) her political leanings. As an estranged adult, I'd like to point out a few things wrong with it and offer some support to my fellow estranged adults out there.
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—Brennan Lee Mulligan
If someone tells you they don't want further contact with you, not honoring that is a deeply shitty thing to do at best. At worst, it's stalking.
To sum up, at least those estranged parents who spend time on the forums may deny awareness of the crazy shit they do to their kids, but their actions say otherwise.
However, being the other way around (if I have children), it doesn't bother me that much. Like, maybe, but not enough to post about it.
My professor was pretty surprised. Apparently that's a rare take.
True abt Millennials being the first to set boundaries in large numbers; criticism of woke was always olds/savages whining abt Behavior That is No Longer Tolerated.
Have long seen this sort of stuff as very American. Outrageous but typical.
There's often zero ownership/introspection in these cases. It's never "could I or should I do anything differently?" It's always the victim mentality - "THEY did this to ME"
I disowned them for being Trump voting Nazis. The wheel keeps turning
She was estranged from her own father. Hypocrites indeed.
I'm still learning to navigate it all.
It both sucks and is liberating.
It's been really hard.