But for real though.. who are YOU to determine how his pain affects him?

This isn’t the Abuse & Oppression Olympics. Emotional abuse can be just as terrorizing as any/all kind of physical abuse, and it all is based on what the person being subjected to it feels. You don’t get to downplay the pain inflicted on someone else because you don’t feel it’s as worthy.

PJ, you have handled this situation with a commendable amount of grace, and already shown a lot of mercy to your mother.

I guess that’s more out of deference to you, rather than your Mom. My Aunt didn’t speak to my Grandmother for an entire year. My Mother and Uncles had to carry the slack for her lashing out because they day ended in “y”. Your sister really loves you.

No... It was the right the first time. Children don’t ask to be born. You have a RESPONSIBILITY to nurture and care for the child YOU chose to bring into the world. A child’s job to show respect...and grow into a good person hopefully with the tools they learned from you. I do my job as a mother and my daughter…

*sigh*

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. I’ve been there and it just sucks. One of my kid’s preschool teachers once told me that you have to put on your own oxygen mask first, in order to be capable of helping anyone else. Meaning- take care of yourself first & foremost. It’s not selfish, it’s self-preservation.

Mama drama is the worst. I feel for you. Last year I had to tell my mama no when she asked to borrow $700. This was AFTER I had already been hitting her up with $100+ every time I got paid. She didn’t speak to me or my daughter (who she loves way more than me, lol) for 5 or 6 months. It tore me up but I knew I had to…

Your mental health comes before any familial allegiance. The fact her own grandchildren don’t warrant a reevaluation of her personal politics is enough for you not to concern yourself with her feelings.

I read a post on ESPN from some Green Beret that wondered why America is so fractured right now and never seemed to get how hard White folk’s whitefolkin’ is on the rest of us. I’ve stopped with the NFL because I just can’t see past it. I guess you’re going through the same thing with your mom. White folks gon white…

Love your mother from a distance. You cannot change people. Only thing you can change is how you choose to deal with them. It’s your mother. She loves you and you love her. You honor her and mitigate your pain by loving her from a distance. You will one day be able to extend grace and mercy to her regardless of her…

If you were a child of a physically or sexually abusive parent, no one would be telling you to basically get over it. When you engage in an action that you know will hurt your child, that child has a right to steer clear of you for some time or forever depending on the severity of the action.

Bear with me as I try to phrase this correctly....

I’m for this. But they don’t deserve good soups.

BINGO.

She voted for him because she wants tax cuts pure and simple. She can try to hide behind God and that Christian mumble jumble, but she got a little bit of money and wants to keep it.

“Voting for a racist, sexist demagogue who literally hates everything I am was worth it so I could tell other women what they should do with their God given autonomy. Because God hates women who have abortions, but he loves serial molesters who walk in on underaged girls in dressing rooms, grab women by the pussy, and…

This is a man who had Jeff George’s cock in his mouth so long he could describe it down to the root. This is a man who not three hours after Steve McNair was murdered by his mistress chose to write an article calling him a lousy husband & father all the while extolling the virtues of strip clubs. This is a man who…

Of COURSE they are out to fuck anyone non-white. How freaking willfully stupid are you being, white person? Are you KIDDING? It’s ALL about keeping anyone with melanin in their “rightful” place - below white people. Wake the fuck up and stop making excuses for these people’s 100% HATEFUL attitudes.