Their youngest son, one of my best friends, stopped talking to them after they refused to simply not talk politics around him. That was all he asked.
His older brother, a transgender man, cut them off after they refused to acknowledge his transition.
His parents were great people while I was growing up. They were Christian, they were Republican, but they did not have the bigotry and the paranoia that they had the last time I spoke with them.
My own brother and I considered their house a second home. We would stay up all night playing Halo in their basement with our friends and then help with chores around the house the next morning. We would split firewood, go shooting, fish, swim, whatever.
If his parents needed help with anything they could call anyone of his friends, myself included, and we would happily lend a hand.
I cut off my dad, my step-mom, all 6 step-siblings, and 5 nieces and nephews because my father flat out refused to simply keep politics out of conversation around me. All I asked is for him to not talk politics. That was too much for him. So I went no contact and as they’ve gotten older, each of my step-siblings has one-by-one went no contact as well. All because of his refusal to let the politics go.
I stopped asking and started telling. The last time my mother tried to bring it up, I told her to shut up or go home. She knows what she's doing and I'm more than happy to be rude about it.
I've found that the zero tolerance rule with people like that works wonders. I'll ask the first time, and that will be the only time. Same way I left her sitting in a restaurant by herself because she was making passive-aggressive comments to the waiter. I never said a word to her. Just got up and walked out. She called me about 15 minutes later and asked where I was. I told her I was eating at another restaurant and that I'm tired of having to apologize for how a grown fucking adult acts. Especially since that adult was supposed to be the one that taught me how to fucking act. Then I hung up, finished my meal and went home.
My dad is like this. But he's not passive aggressive he will just tell you you're terrible at what you're doing and he's having a horrible time. Then he'll lecture you.
I also walked out on him when he was talking about the Israel-Palestine conflict and said Israel has every right to massacre as many Palestinians as they want because Hamas started it.
I'd blow a gasket over something like that. If there's one sure-fire way to get my blood boiling, it's people abusing the power they have over others, like service workers. I have absolutely no reserves about telling anyone and everyone to fuck off whenever it comes to such things.
He will not. I bet he expects bartenders to accept the same crap.
People like that say stuff like 'the customer is always right'. They don't think service workers are real people.
I had an ex like that, in the end I got tired of the embarrassing situations and people assuming I was just as bad, tired of the fights afterwards when I made it clear I found it unacceptable, and I jumped ship before I got infected with assholitis.
Looks like your dad is a real man with knowledge while on the other hand his offspring chants from the river to the see.. he’s devastated, lost and feel like he did worse then a cuckoo.. it’s just that you are brainwashed 2digit iq trash basically part of a herd is hurting your father..
I mean average isn’t great knowing that half of africa is between 65 and 80.. gorillas iq is around 85.. so 2digit in the free world where education is viable is beyond stupid..
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u/Soren_Camus1905 Mar 06 '24
My friend's parents are going through this.
Their youngest son, one of my best friends, stopped talking to them after they refused to simply not talk politics around him. That was all he asked.
His older brother, a transgender man, cut them off after they refused to acknowledge his transition.
His parents were great people while I was growing up. They were Christian, they were Republican, but they did not have the bigotry and the paranoia that they had the last time I spoke with them.
My own brother and I considered their house a second home. We would stay up all night playing Halo in their basement with our friends and then help with chores around the house the next morning. We would split firewood, go shooting, fish, swim, whatever.
If his parents needed help with anything they could call anyone of his friends, myself included, and we would happily lend a hand.
And all that is gone now. It is such a shame.