Yeah but this wasn’t just a protest with talking in some part of campus. This was the infiltration of a city by violent racists and supremacists who came armed with gasoline, fire, and militia weapons. There are a reports from the week of them pacing outside synagogues. They approached and surrounded students who were…

same. i havent had any meaningful contact with my mom in 8 years and my life is so much better because of it. the negative energy she brought into my life was not worth it anymore.

See what I got from that speech was...if you’re too up your own ass to care about others then fucking care about yourself because these things will affect you too. I guess it is all about perspective.

Oof, that’s the sound of someone who has had the privilege of a parent who hasn’t emotionally, physically, or sexually abused you until you had to take the socially unacceptable step of protecting yourself by distancing yourself from them. You don’t owe your parents your love, fidelity, and respect if they never…

The notion that adult children owe their parents anything other than regarding them openly and honestly is an absurd anachronism that should be dead by now. Children don’t choose to be born. They don’t choose their blood relatives. People don’t owe shit for a situation they didn’t accept or create.

Agreed. And more unsolicited advice from someone who has also had to partially estrange herself from her mother (in this case because of untreated mental illness): therapy is a wonderful, wonderful thing. This is really heavy stuff and it helps immensely to find a safe place to talk about it.

WTF does that even mean? I mean, seriously “blook is thicker than water” makes sense but WTF does that even mean?

The best thing we did was to cut out my in-laws. My daughter dreaded staying with them because of their shit. The election was the final straw. They haven’t seen their granddaughter in over 8 months. They fucking hate it and are trying everything (except repenting for being racist) to get back in our good graces. Nope.

The scary thing is that I don’t think the mother even *realizes* it’s against his best interests. She’s so up in her feelings about things that she legitimately doesn’t think the issues that he’s brought up are actual issues.

Umm... while blood is literally thicker than water, the viscosity- in both the well-known colloquialism and its adaptation here- is metaphorical. But you already knew that, my disingenuous little troll.

THIS.

Don’t blame the writer for your lack of reading comprehension. The term made perfect sense to me.

As the saying goes, “You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.”

really? It’s that hard for you to understand poetic license and move from one phrase to the next? If it is true that blood is thicker than water (which is an idiom for crying out loud), then saying blood is *not* thicker than [insert item] is clearly referencing the idiom and playing with it. Don’t be thick (*ahem*…

Aside from a couple of texts, I haven’t talked to my father since the election either. I just can’t do it. The man’s a grandfather and he’s supporting someone who will make his grandchildren’s lives worse. I can’t abide that.

Hint: thicker = importance.

I had a coworker who cut her parents off right after the election. She’s white, a lesbian in an interracial marriage (her wife is Latina). Her parents voted for 45. She was like “No, we will not be coming to your house for Thanksgiving, and I see no need for us to speak further.” She has 3 or 4 siblings who are like…

Relationships are investments, do not let a bad one emotionally bankrupt you. 

The expression “blood is thicker than water” originally meant that the bond between comrades is stronger than family, as in bathing in the blood of your enemies is a pretty powerful bonding experience, and it has been bastardized into meaning the exact opposite.

For real. I honestly don’t think kids owe their parents much, if anything. Why on earth would you bring a child into the world, and then vote AGAINST that child’s best interests, and still expect your child to accommodate you? Being the bigger person is great and all, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit there and…