Family Estrangement and the Holidays

[@JC_0007]

Great show. I appreciate the topic. It dives into the heart of the beginning of the matter that is an endemic. There is ways to a solution to this. I’d recommend that … You did a show on Daughters and Dads- How about Sons and Daughters. I can take gifts to my grandchildren, I can reach out, I can write letters, I have a heart, a mind, a soul, and don’t deny myself love.

[@rehabilitatingbuzzy3281]

I read a complaint from one young parent who was frustrated because her father in law wouldnt take his shoes off in her house. She had no idea what his reason was and she felt he was disrespecting her. She was advised by commenters to withold his access to the grandchildren, "then see how fast he takes his shoes off."

[@rehabilitatingbuzzy3281]

Concept creep has made normal range conflict "unsafe," "abusive," and "traumatic." We no longer change the subject, when conversation goes into tricky areas, now we stamp our foot and declare our "boundaries." And this drama goes well beyond whoever the original two parties were, and ends up fracturing the entire family. Children grow up not knowing the grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles they were born entitled to have, just because adult children want to punish and control their elders.

[@JC_0007]

I’ve never heard of ‘concept creep’

[@rehabilitatingbuzzy3281]

​@@JC_0007 That's hard to believe. I assume you have looked it up by now.