Y’all I can’t understand how kids these days can just up and stop talking to their families once they’re grown. I could see it if they had been abusive parents, (speaking from experience in that instance), but these are pretty decent parents I’m seeing have their kids walk right out of their lives. I just don’t get it. Don’t they realize how cruel it is to do that? And I know in one case the kiddo is generally a kind and considerate person, but they just up and completely blocked their mom 🫤
@StarlightEmber Families look real different on the outside looking in than they do from the inside. People thought my family had it together but that’s because they never heard my mom threaten us with homelessness or her own suicide. Most of us hide those scars like our lives depend on it. And sometimes they literally do.
Millennials learned that you could just go out and build a family from the parts other families have discarded. So now a lot of us do that.
I can see that if there is true abuse going on. I did that myself with my alcoholic bipolar father. He was dangerous to be around physically and emotionally. This is not the case in the examples I am thinking of. I don’t know if it’s fear, anxiety, or what, but to completely walk away from someone who literally did their best to be a good parent without even trying to talk through anything really bothers me. I know this family very well and the kids refuse to even tell their mom what is wrong