“I’ll never understand the sex appeal of a boozy cigarette-withered middle-aged man with a hairpiece fondly nicknamed a rat, not to knock Frank Sinatra.”
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I miss David Bowie so so much it makes my heart hurt. Lexie is truly lovely 💙
This is a bunch of wypipo in here stirring up trouble and pretending to be clueless in order to have arguments. Why haven’t the people they responded to dismissed them yet?
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.
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.
I thought the whole expression was “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”.
The thing here that made me particularly sad was that it sounds as if the son, despite the repeated digs at him and his beliefs, still was the one apologizing and trying to make things work.
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.
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”
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…
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…
I’ve always been REAL suspicious that anyone who tells you you’ve gotta look past stuff like this is secretly harboring some toxic shit of their own and wants the reassurance you’d look past that too.
I know it’s not shocking, but it’s heartbreaking to hear someone talk about how their own mother chose whiteness over their children. And wanting to take you to a step-family’s Thanksgiving? Just gross.
no not really, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitut… in any case, off the top of my head, drug deals, drug consumption, illegal street rules karaoke fights, you name it.