I'm so very sorry for your loss...and the relationship conditions preceding it. I can certainly emphathize. My sister (she's 10 years older than me and was a better mom to me than our OWN mom) are now estranged. I've also been estranged from our mother for well over a decade. I have a brother who, ironically, I didn't get along with growing up...but now we get along the best out of the entire family due to our shared political worldview and refusal to get the clot shots.
My sister and her husband were full onboard with vaxes/boosters from the git-go...because that's what the media/gov't have always told her to do. They've flatly refused to see my wife and I for the past 2+ years (we are unvaxxed) and they've chosen only to be around their "small circle of vaxed friends." On the couple occasions I've tried to reason with her to at least look at related vax side effect data over the years, she got angry and briefly shut down every time. I tried again around Thanksgiving and she hasn't spoken to us since, even through the holidays.
At this point...I/we are done. Unfortunately, it's not limited to relatives...we've lost a handful of (who we thought were) "close friends" over the past two years, because they don't want to "catch anything" from my wife and I. (HARD eyeroll)
I don't like to shut people out of my life as a rule, but I can't have any more impact on these situations. I don't know if the shots are specifically designed to harm....but I do think they've been USED to create harm and sow dissent and to drive people apart into "factions." Not unlike my family situation. It saddens me....but I know my wife and I are not alone.
I'm so very sorry for your loss...and the relationship conditions preceding it. I can certainly emphathize. My sister (she's 10 years older than me and was a better mom to me than our OWN mom) are now estranged. I've also been estranged from our mother for well over a decade. I have a brother who, ironically, I didn't get along with growing up...but now we get along the best out of the entire family due to our shared political worldview and refusal to get the clot shots.
My sister and her husband were full onboard with vaxes/boosters from the git-go...because that's what the media/gov't have always told her to do. They've flatly refused to see my wife and I for the past 2+ years (we are unvaxxed) and they've chosen only to be around their "small circle of vaxed friends." On the couple occasions I've tried to reason with her to at least look at related vax side effect data over the years, she got angry and briefly shut down every time. I tried again around Thanksgiving and she hasn't spoken to us since, even through the holidays.
At this point...I/we are done. Unfortunately, it's not limited to relatives...we've lost a handful of (who we thought were) "close friends" over the past two years, because they don't want to "catch anything" from my wife and I. (HARD eyeroll)
I don't like to shut people out of my life as a rule, but I can't have any more impact on these situations. I don't know if the shots are specifically designed to harm....but I do think they've been USED to create harm and sow dissent and to drive people apart into "factions." Not unlike my family situation. It saddens me....but I know my wife and I are not alone.