Is MAGA Responsible for the RISE in Family Estrangement?

The evil Dr Phil would have episodes about parental estrangement and in the comments were tons of crying parents blaming their children for it. Cracked me up how many of them would announce their toxicity.

When she was talking about conservative parents controlling their kids all I could think of was that clip of Sean Duffy telling his daughter she's not going to Harvard.

Everyone I know has at least one person in their family who they cut out. Personally it's exhausting to talk to a brick wall.

Blood ain't thicker than Peace, baby!

Don't worry kids always find their way home when they need money but I am sure most of the kids that are estranged are from trump voting parents yeah! maga.

The incompetence and irony is off the charts in this video. The incompetence of those ladies is astronomical and sadly they will never be able to comprehend the irony of their statements.

I was attacked by my birthing human's inseminator with a beer bottle for being transgender. After 10 minutes of beating, head trauma and blood loss told me that it was in my best interest to defend myself.

I knocked my birthing human's inseminator out and wgen he came to, he got a handgun to finish the job he started.

In the wake of that, the person who gave birth to me joined up with her siblings to coerce me into lying to the DA to get the attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and commission of a felony with a firearm and five other charges dropped during Herr Trumpf's first Fhurership.

It all happened because I had left an abusive wife who outed me to my parents the night I left her.

My two kids are the only birth family with whom I still speak.

Leigh mentioned smartphones, but I think this is something else we can lay at the feet of social media in general. Before, if a relative had some kind of opinion you disagreed with, even virulently, it was easier to kind of bury the disagreement since it likely only came out occasionally. Now, with people posting and reposting every vile meme that crosses their path, it keeps the disagreements closer to the surface and people are more quick to jump in and it's harder to keep the peace.

I’ve always been confused about the argument that it’s the fault of children. I mean, YOU raised your children! If you don’t like the way your children behave as adults then maybe that’s on you?

James Dobson taught Christian parents to be physically and emotionally abusive to their children and now has to teach them how to deal with being estranged from the same children.

I went through COVID in Florida – I've had my fill of taking crap.
Took me too long to just stop engaging. If you are too hard to get riled up they fade away ✌️💜

This is absolutely true. I can't tell you how many times I've been told "but she's your mother, you should be able to just forgive her." She literally let her bf sexually abuse me for years, and she blamed me. I was 15 when it started. This is only one example too.
Not to over-share here though, but this hits home and I'm genuinely glad to hear someone talk about it.

It's Definitely BC of Trump.. Really hard to Overlook or Even Tolerate The Cultish Completely Unreasonable Ideas and Behavior

The right-wing of politics has become Vile. Or to use one of Mom's great phrases, "They're full of Piss and Vinegar!" In many cases it's beyond sad. When people become that self-righteous, they have tunnel vision for only what they want to see, and will only listen to what they want to hear. Zero communication, no talking things thru, working them out. But frankly, it's just like their politics. "Our Way Or The Highway!" And people can't, and should never have to live that way. Then they're, "Too Woke!" I swear, FOX Fake-news/Propaganda must pay bonuses for words they can label, Democrats and Progressives with. I don't know anymore… 🙄

It's about heirarchies. Conservatism is, at its core, all about maintaining heirarchies. Fascism is the embedding of this in society through Nationalist ideology, and legal enforcement of social and economic heirarchies.

Kids are to OBEY their elders. Women are to OBEY their husbands. The elders OBEY the authorities. The authorities OBEY the politicians. The politicians OBEY the Capitalists.

Oppose this and you will be destroyed.

I think it’s also worth considering that republicans are working to dismantle social security benefits which will further impoverish their voting base, and so it’s useful to frame the adult children who go no contact as the villains. Republican politicians want to be able to say it’s these adult children who have abandoned the their trump voting parents, rather than the system their parents voted for.

Need morals and education to improve the forgotten class…

I left my abusive mormon family fifty years ago, when i was 15. Being a homeless teenager in the 70s was hard, but not as hard as my family. I hope that it gets easier for people to seek out the real lives that they want 🙂

You are absolutely right. It is the best decision I have ever made.

I've been estranged from my white supremacist mother for about 7 years, we tried family therapy once during that time, I got the therapy for us, took it seriously. She did not, every time we started to dig into something she cried victim, when it was literally just talking about her literal abuse that she inflicted as a child. So manipulative she got the family therapist to bend over backwards to the point of catering every session to her. She gaslit, lied, manipulated. Completely rewrote history, and I genuinely believe she believes her own made up garbage. It put me back YEARS in personal therapy, but also in another way progressed it super far, to the point where I almost didn't care anymore, which was one of the hardest steps to get through.

I've heard a lot of estrangement theory, psych professionals talking about it, also the crying from the estranged parents…. I think this is one of the shortest and most productive videos I've heard on the subject, I can actually send this to people and they can quickly understand a lot of the major points I'd trip over myself trying to explain.

Thanks for having this talk. 💜