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Peggy Fokkema's avatar

No I'm sure we won't.. A couple months ago I wrote my mother a letter saying goodbye cuz we won't even see each other again.. She is 97. But sound body and mind or i thought. No response..I expressed my love to her and it is sad.

2 days ago I texted goodbye to my older sister again I said that her and mother consider me the ENEMY..I said I don't consider you my enemy, but I do Trump.. I'm ready to do it with my other 3 siblings. So difficult.. But not new.. On that they never have accepted me, acknowledged out truly loved I guess.

The biggest thing to this is that after that. I felt a load lifted..I no longer need to sell for something they freely give each other... I'm done and running the other way .I can finally let go of my hope, in my mother's case , that we could reconcile.. The indoctrinating of Calvinism somehow has more holes than it already did. It had made for a very difficult life . So now at 62. I can say f*** Calvinism for the first time and not fear I will be sent to hell...I am finally o.k.

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Susan Farrell's avatar

This piece is so "right on". I literally lost my sister to the cult of Fox News. We once had a loving relationship that is now totally superficial. When we talk, I feel I am walking on eggshells, tiptoeing around topics that won't get us into an argument. The worst part is she will throw out Fox sound bites, without looking at the facts. If I try to correct her, there's tension in the air and our phone call soon ends. We used to talk weekly-now it's monthly if that. It's all very sad.

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