Same, my parents might be a 10 min drive from us. My mom sent my wife and I a message using our niece and nephews as guilt trip. I was a little taken my mom would stoop to that level, but when you're 100% brainwashed and don't know it...
Neither of us responded. My sister had a b-day party for the youngest nephew last weekend. She sent a msg to all, that were coming, that she wanted everyone vaxxed to, y'know... protect the kids. So basically, in our family, the line's been drawn as far as I'm concerned.
Wife's mom, total opposite. Has fairly serious COPD, got her double vax, does not give two sweet fucks if anyone else does or doesn't. Her view with the wife and I is respectable : we're family and in the end, family is all you've got.
Same scenario w/ our parents. Mine are vaxxed communist apparatchiks and her parents are fully jabbed w/ health issues but are highly social and always want to see us though they are in FL. We have no siblings, so it's just us, our kids and parents. Unfortunately, they are all about to find out what's in the vax.
I'm sorry to hear this and I empathize -- my vaxxed "half" of the family (mother, sister and her hubby) have refused to see us at all since March 2020. Also an increasing number of vaxxed friends keeping their distance from my unjabbed wife and I...but that's okay, cuz they're more dangerous to us anyway.
Also, it's an increasingly isolated living experience here in the People's Republic of NoVA, which (if I recall correctly) is where you reside as well. :/
Yep, Fairfaxistan is home. The good news is that we had some surprise life changes within the last week and we are GTFO here very soon. As in gone by Nov, sell house in Mar. Headed to SC.
I've noticed in my friend circles, the vaxxed and unvaxxed are also at odds. Any talk of the vax and the vaxxed clam up or get up and go elsewhere.
The reasonable vaxxed show a little remorse or c'est la vie attitude. The righteous vaxxed think everyone they come in contact with should be restrained and injected against their will.
What really blows me away is the number of people who wear masks in public. I was in a packed Costco yesterday and of the hundreds of people in there, I counted 7 total without masks. Same for Giant. I've noticed that good looking women tend not to wear masks. Now, go a few miles up the road in Arlington/Alexandria and those fools are walking around with face shields, double masks and gloves.
What a contrast being in Columbia SC last weekend, watching 100k people mill around for the game, less than 2% were masked. It was glorious. Here we come!!!
I am so, so, SO happy for you and your impending escape!!!!! We were looking to head for Myrtle Beach area sometime second half of next year....but my wife may be forced out of her job, and me in DoD, well...can't say yet. But we are so tired of it all...and may cash out the house in the next couple of months and move that timetable up. It's nearly unbearable here.
My parents have seen us twice, at a safe distance since Mar '20. And they live 15 miles from me. F 'em.
Same, my parents might be a 10 min drive from us. My mom sent my wife and I a message using our niece and nephews as guilt trip. I was a little taken my mom would stoop to that level, but when you're 100% brainwashed and don't know it...
Neither of us responded. My sister had a b-day party for the youngest nephew last weekend. She sent a msg to all, that were coming, that she wanted everyone vaxxed to, y'know... protect the kids. So basically, in our family, the line's been drawn as far as I'm concerned.
Wife's mom, total opposite. Has fairly serious COPD, got her double vax, does not give two sweet fucks if anyone else does or doesn't. Her view with the wife and I is respectable : we're family and in the end, family is all you've got.
Same scenario w/ our parents. Mine are vaxxed communist apparatchiks and her parents are fully jabbed w/ health issues but are highly social and always want to see us though they are in FL. We have no siblings, so it's just us, our kids and parents. Unfortunately, they are all about to find out what's in the vax.
I'm sorry to hear this and I empathize -- my vaxxed "half" of the family (mother, sister and her hubby) have refused to see us at all since March 2020. Also an increasing number of vaxxed friends keeping their distance from my unjabbed wife and I...but that's okay, cuz they're more dangerous to us anyway.
Also, it's an increasingly isolated living experience here in the People's Republic of NoVA, which (if I recall correctly) is where you reside as well. :/
Yep, Fairfaxistan is home. The good news is that we had some surprise life changes within the last week and we are GTFO here very soon. As in gone by Nov, sell house in Mar. Headed to SC.
I've noticed in my friend circles, the vaxxed and unvaxxed are also at odds. Any talk of the vax and the vaxxed clam up or get up and go elsewhere.
The reasonable vaxxed show a little remorse or c'est la vie attitude. The righteous vaxxed think everyone they come in contact with should be restrained and injected against their will.
What really blows me away is the number of people who wear masks in public. I was in a packed Costco yesterday and of the hundreds of people in there, I counted 7 total without masks. Same for Giant. I've noticed that good looking women tend not to wear masks. Now, go a few miles up the road in Arlington/Alexandria and those fools are walking around with face shields, double masks and gloves.
What a contrast being in Columbia SC last weekend, watching 100k people mill around for the game, less than 2% were masked. It was glorious. Here we come!!!
I am so, so, SO happy for you and your impending escape!!!!! We were looking to head for Myrtle Beach area sometime second half of next year....but my wife may be forced out of her job, and me in DoD, well...can't say yet. But we are so tired of it all...and may cash out the house in the next couple of months and move that timetable up. It's nearly unbearable here.
I was forced out of gov.