I have reinstituted Full No Contact with my family. It helps if you have your spouse’s consent and assistance. Good luck.

My step-dad is giddy with hate. I’m basically dealing with it by ghosting him. I deleted him from FB. My family and I will be bowing out of holidays. There’s no point in talking about it. It won’t change my mind or his. And I’m not going to just sit quietly by and invite a bigot into my life, even if he is my family…

I already had an unavoidable call with my MIL today. She immediately went for the erasure of LGBT rights. She told me she was happy to get them ‘out of her face’. She said she admires Pence and thinks Trump is pretty Democratic. She hates Muslims, and can’t even identify Sikhs. She thinks BLM is a joke.