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Still Don't Sleep Though (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 169 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Had a discussion with my wife's parents the other day. They thought it was hilarious. They laughed, alternating between mockery of the poor and "nobody helped me so everybody should suffer!"

She said maybe it's time to go no-contact.

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  • [–] [S] 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Going no contact is a lot easier than it sounds: the biggest issue is "them" not respecting your new boundaries.
    My biggest piece of advice is to never respond to them. The 'keeping silent and ghosting' part can be a challenge.
    Ultimately, though, you owe them nothing but your happiness.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago

    It's tough. Years of upbringing makes it hard for her to not respond, but even in the best of times they were conservative nuts. But sure, not everybody likes their family's political views, right? They went full Nazi during his first term. Now, they don't even try to hide it and openly admit that they agree with everything happening.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago*

    And delete your Facebook account. It’s just generally better for your mental health, it aids in stopping the cycle of billionaires feeding everyone information by whoever pays them. And then it stops unwanted contact from family. They can still post about you, but they’re screaming into an empty void of data centers at that point

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    some in-laws are such terrible people once you get to know them. but the IL are the on the recieving ends of the cuts in the bbb, they are getting exactly what they wanted, they are just copium. i had cousins that after the astroworld crush, they were sitll "investing" in that venue, how immoral you have to be to do that, they would be the same people that would work for palintir because of money. asians are quite disconnected from politics/current events.

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