OK. I'VE HAD ENOUGH! No more Republicans in my life. If you're greedy enough, dumb enough, selfish

[marions ghost]

81. True--but I think it's very hard to reject family

especially if there ARE some things you still like about them, or if their "turn for the worse" has happened fairly recently. Or if you forgive them for being stupid enough to fall for the biggest pack of lies ever constructed to manipulate the American people.

And then there's how the comparison with people who are close to their families becomes its own kind of hurt. That longing for connection with kin doesn't magically go away.

It takes a strong person to draw the line, and the road to acceptance of a split must be experienced as a grieving and letting go process. Not every body has the strength to go through that willingly.

I've had to do it--to realize that the bond I thought was there, was probably my own delusion. Because people who love you do not disrespect you or vomit hate speech on you. I have come to think of the bonds symbolically as strings of love from my heart to another's. And when you come to the end with that person, you realize that these strings are gone. You have achieved the final severance which cannot be repaired (or at least you give up all HOPE of repair).

When you get rid rid of those who are hurting you--you have room in your life for those who you can trust NOT to hurt you.
They are out there.