Edit: Stand Down, the event has ended, and we’ve returned to DEFCON 4. Your support was felt in spirit, if not in the flesh, and your service is appreciated.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26499767
There is of course a “no politics” rule, which means they get to “accidentally” drop little comments then titter in apology, but no one gets to reply.
And the last thing I’m going to do is make a scene at my wife’s family’s house with my wife’s family on my wife’s birthday.
So here I sit, stewing, and I don’t even have access to anything intoxicating.
Please send a few hours of amnesia and something cold to drink. And earplugs? How about a national emergency requiring us to leave the premises?
It was how my family treated my partner that finally helped me snap. No contact for a decade. Fuck those assholes. They never learn and have no respect to for others. I would hope a good partner would take notice of how their family is.
I don’t understand why people put up with shitty family amd pretend to have common values or interests. What a waste of your precious life.
In OPs case, I’d straight up tell them they know exactly what they’re doing, and if they were mature and respectful, they would stop.
If they don’t, fucking leave.
Best thing I ever learned from someone else: