How Social Media Ruins Families | Ep.174

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[@6970terry]

This was a wonderful video, so insightful! I am feeling everything you mention here. Thank you

[@youtubemariemorinestrangement]

You are so welcome!

[@mariansmith7694]

Yes, it does/ can make it worse, but texting is most harmful. It seems to be far more easy to be hateful and mean when you can’t hear a person’s voice. 😢.

[@loraliecataldi1975]

In my case with texting is just another way I get stone walled. Radio silence on the other end. I’ve been experiencing covert abuse my entire life with my malignant, malicious covert vulnerable narcissistic mother and she managed to drive a wedge between me and my only child who once loved, adored, trusted and came to me for everything. It took me a good 4 years to make sense of his withdrawal as I thought it was in large part due to his becoming a pre-teen and being on the computer. But I watched my mother and sons relationship flourish and over time I was delegated to the role of being much like an older scapegoated sister figure who was crazy because from his perspective all he could see was my reactions to being unduly and systematically provoked over and over again by my mother while she maintained a disposition of calm, rational, unmoved and that of being the victim of my outbursts. I also think my son saw the advantages of being allied with my mother as she would pacify, reward and enable him to no end and she even groomed and trained him on how to implement covert forms of abuse on me. His neglect father and his girlfriend too since he was very young have also been attempting to undermine our relationship since he was nearly 4 years old. I’ve officially been thrown under the bus and don’t know what this will mean for my son as he is on the autism spectrum and no longer has an advocate. His development was once reaching milestones when I was the one being proactive with getting him interventions and doing everything in my power to help him build the necessary skills to be able to do life but since I got demoted he refuses to even acknowledge his autism now, and his delay at this stage could really spell disaster for him in the upcoming years ahead as he becomes more and more aware of how his peers and even those much younger than he is, is accomplishing, functioning and properly launching while he will be stuck and frozen while resorting to his neck deep gaming addiction that my mother encouraged and still approves of. I had to leave 7 months ago because they both began to be very overly abusive towards me just for uttering a word. I had become nothing more than a servant, maid, cook, provider but one with no voice and ignored constantly by them both. No Happy Mothers Day or any acknowledgment of Holidays but glad to receive my generous gifts….no gifts given in return not even a card or a hug since he was 12 and he’s now almost 17. I lost my son I feel forever.