My brothers and I haven't made any plans over the last 2 months other than helping one move and Thanksgiving. No calls no text nothing, it's so sad because it's over the election. Ones an ass hat idiot who calls himself a libertarian and thinks he's smart as fuck but still lives at home with mom. The other is a successful man who just moved from the city to the burbs because of covid, he lived in Brooklyn for 10 years so his policies are just like every single other "free thinker" in Brooklyn. These two see each other 2-3 times a week so it's not like they don't speak. I used to see them often, now I won't see them at all except maybe once or twice a year if I'm lucky. Honestly how they've acted towards me when I was helping the one move and Thanksgiving makes me not want to see them anymore anyway. They just repeat the same bullshit, never listen, shut me down and talk FUCKING GIBBERISH about shit they dont know. It's a sad way to end our relationship like this and I can't believe these are the same people from just last year, fuckin nuts. After all this I'm really not sure I'm even going miss the libertarian, over the last 12-18 months me and him have been going at it alittle but now with the date set that I leave it seems what was there has crumbled. I really can't even emphasize about how keeping business and politics out of the family is a number 1 priority. But we live, we learn...it's 4am I'm wide awake stewing over this. Just unreal , I still love the Brooklyn one with all my heart as a bro but it's really unlike him to not reach out like this for so long, and I'm gone on Friday... Just a shame, don't always make good arguments and facts back at family, maybe let them win once or twice to preserve the bonds. Idk thanks for listening, I'm out
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Hope things improve fren.
Man this is tough to read. Times are hectic and I would try my best to not let time like these destroy family relationships. When everything cools down a bit I would try to make contact again (a text, a call). You can even use moving as an exuse about losing the Time. Family is family, and I'm not the closest to mine, but it still rings true. That said, I'm just an internet stranger and you know more about the situation than me. I hope you find yourself in a better place with them, either farther apart or closer, in the future. Good luck.
I appreciate that man, family has always been first. I didn't talk about trump his first full year because they were butthurt, maybe time is the best solution
Red states are great. You have a lot more freedom. You can always visit
Sorry buddy you are going through this. I am in a similar situation but it hasn’t gone that far yet.
Godspeed Pede!
feels. I hear you fren. I've had to sort of distance myself from my brother. he goes off the rails with his msm retort. It's the same damn song everytime. he thinks he's so damn smart because he gets along with our brother in law who flew through college with a 4.0. that guy is super elitist and doesn't have much of a backbone let alone a logical thinking braincell. he sure can recite a book word for word tho. my whole family is super anti-trump and in the past, conservative. so that's where the road split, I super pro-america and pro trump and they are not.
as having been in the military I'm already used to the separation and now we're about a 12 hour drive apart. The distance can be a good thing for the relationships.
God bless
You’re not alone in having brothers or parents or close friends or other relatives against Trump, mainly because they just don’t make the minimal effort to inform themselves.
One solution can be to cut the toxic people out of your life, but I personally preferred not engage them in political discussions. Whatever works best for you.
I'll check it out man, God bless
His loss. MAGA