PastHer

“I would never tell someone to be disrespectful towards their elders. But I don’t always follow my own advice. So I feel like the ornery honesty I gave my ‘grandmother’ earlier was appropriate. Because she never practiced what she preached. Which created two toxically lost generations…and counting. When I first started the chat, I approached her with indoctrinated respect that her behavior never earned. Today I moved past her entitlement and told her the truth. Her messy marriage to my BM’s dad is what birthed sociopathic offspring and I’ve been waiting for her to acknowledge that. Unfortunately, my elders are just elderly. And they pretend to forget their part in our problem…so we never find a solution.”