My parents have officially shunned me and the middle sibling for not taking the vaccine. They've asked if we no longer contact them. "Until you get vaccinated leave us alone." I knew this day was coming so I'm a bit more mentally prepared but my brother is going off on them like an atomic bomb. Really are sad days in the midst... I pray and hope this is resolved shortly. I pray and hope we are not being conned. I pray and hope all will be well and the awakening will truly begin. Soon. Sorry for the rant, thanks for being the virtual shoulder frens..
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Oh, I agree about the enabling factor and have also witnessed it in my husbands family. To me unconditional love means that there’s nothing my child could ever do that would make me stop loving her, but there are a lot of things she can do that would make me exercise tough love. We have dear friends who “lost” their son to mental illness. It’s a long story but they finally realized they had to stop enabling him, that he was a danger in their home, and they let him go. I know his mother loves him to this day and always will and “cutting the cord” was the hardest thing the family has had to do. Unconditional love doesn’t mean and shouldn’t mean that you enable those you love to use you or be destructive people. That’s called unhealthy love that breeds unhealthy relationships. 🤷🏼♀️
Truth^. I regret I have only one updoot to give you.
Families can be tough places.
My father was a highly intelligent wife-beating psychotic and a communist. My mother was a kind, almost saintly, Feinstein-Pelosi-northern California democrat. I loved them both in different ways. Love for my father was deep background. It surfaced the day he died. Love for my mother was open and foreground but we argued about a lot of things.
I have to tell people the truth as I understand it. Family or not.
People can't help the way they're born. It's nature and genetics. It can't be changed. I still had to stop my father's violence when I was old enough and I had to tell my mother what the background to the political scene is. She never believed me.
So to me that's what love demands. Truth is first.
The truth is the universe does not have separate parts.
For the Christians, remember Jesus saying, "I and the father are one". And Jesus was one of us.